Month: September 2022

Dr Tim Cubitt Despite a considerable body of research on police misconduct, findings have been mixed, with little consensus regarding its causes, and best practice for detection and prevention. Using data from three policing agencies, this presentation will explore emerging...

Karla Lopez Evidence-based practice and the science of implementation are natural allies. The efforts of practitioners and academics to generate evidence and influence practice are far less likely to be impactful without structured implementation activity. In other words, for the...

Michael S. Scott, Dr Lisa Thomson, Dr Justin Ready There are four basic reasons why a problem-oriented- or evidence-based-policing initiative might fail: 1) the problem was inaccurately identified; 2) the problem was insufficiently or inadequately analyzed; 3) the responses developed...

David Halpern David Halpern will provide insights from behavioural science and evidence-based policymaking on how to create a high-performance organisation. This includes evidence-based leadership techniques, how incentives can actually impact people’s motivations, building trust internally and externally, improving organisational judgement,...

A/Professor Justin Ready Despite the fairly widespread claim that police are resistant to change, police services have been prolific adopters of new technology over the past two decades. Many of these new technologies have GPS capabilities that track frontline officer...

Tom Kirchmaier Policing matters. What you do, and how you do it has a real impact on the outcome. For this, I report the results of two empirical papers, the first one studying the impact of Police response time on...

Dr Geoff Barnes, Chief Inspector Paul Trice This paper presents the surprising results from London’s Operation Avert, which is in all likelihood the single largest experimental trial of hot spot policing ever conducted. 228 high violence locations were randomly assigned...

Dr Ashley Bloomfield The use or non-use of evidence to inform public policy and practice was starkly highlighted during the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Generally, jurisdictions that directly informed their responses with evidence had the best health outcomes, especially...

Supt Suzanne Hopper The aim of this research was to investigate whether a ‘Guardian Briefing’ can reduce the likelihood of a child previously taken into custody being rearrested. Specifically, we tested the impact of an in-custody video and survey, and...

Karla Lopez Evidence-based practice and the science of implementation are natural allies. The efforts of practitioners and academics to generate evidence and influence practice are far less likely to be impactful without structured implementation activity. In other words, for the...