The Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Landscape of Policing in a Digitalized World (2024)
Journal Article
Easton, M., de Paepe, J., Aston, L., & Clayton, E. (2024). The Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Landscape of Policing in a Digitalized World. European Journal of Policing Studies, 7(1-2), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.5553/ejps.000018

In the ever-evolving landscape of law enforcement, the advent of the digital age has ushered in transformative shifts in police practices. These shifts have sparked scholarly attention and fuelled an increased volume of research dedicated to unravell... Read More about The Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Landscape of Policing in a Digitalized World.

“Free Text Is Essentially the Enemy of What We’re Trying to Achieve”: The Framing of a National Vision for Delivering Digital Police Contact (2024)
Journal Article
Wells, H., Andrews, W., Clayton, E., Bradford, B., Aston, E. V., & O’Neill, M. (2024). “Free Text Is Essentially the Enemy of What We’re Trying to Achieve”: The Framing of a National Vision for Delivering Digital Police Contact. European Journal of Policing Studies, 7(1-2), 14-35. https://doi.org/10.5553/ejps.000017

Police organizations in England and Wales, as in many other contexts, are increasingly shifting crime reporting and other public-facing contact online. In this article, we explore the beliefs, motivations and objectives of those tasked with “deliveri... Read More about “Free Text Is Essentially the Enemy of What We’re Trying to Achieve”: The Framing of a National Vision for Delivering Digital Police Contact.

The first national subject benchmark statement for UK higher education in policing: the importance of effective partnership and collaboration (2024)
Journal Article
Pepper, I., Cox, C., Fee, R., Horgan, S., Jarman, R., Jones, M., …Tattum, C. (in press). The first national subject benchmark statement for UK higher education in policing: the importance of effective partnership and collaboration. Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, https://doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-02-2023-0042

Purpose The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) for Higher Education in the UK focuses on maintaining, enhancing and standardising the quality of higher education. Of significant impact are the development of subject benchmark statements (SBS) by the QA... Read More about The first national subject benchmark statement for UK higher education in policing: the importance of effective partnership and collaboration.

Influence Government, Platform Power And The Patchwork Profile: Exploring The Appropriation Of Targeted Advertising Infrastructures For Government Behaviour Change Campaigns (2024)
Journal Article
Collier, B., Stewart, J., Horgan, S., Thomas, D. R., & Wilson, L. (2024). Influence Government, Platform Power And The Patchwork Profile: Exploring The Appropriation Of Targeted Advertising Infrastructures For Government Behaviour Change Campaigns. First Monday, 29(1), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i2.13579

The targeted digital advertising infrastructures on which the business models of the social media platform economy rest have been the subject of significant academic and political interest. In this paper, we explore and theorise the appropriation of... Read More about Influence Government, Platform Power And The Patchwork Profile: Exploring The Appropriation Of Targeted Advertising Infrastructures For Government Behaviour Change Campaigns.

Scottish Drug Checking Project summary (2024)
Report
Carver, H., Falzon, D., Aston, E., Craik, V., Masterson, W., & Parkes, T. (2024). Scottish Drug Checking Project summary. Corra Foundation

Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa (2023)
Book
Soliman, F. (2023). Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa. London: Routledge

This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact. Drawing on an ethnographic study on the borderisation of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, it explores border harms from t... Read More about Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa.

Longer sentences? Overcrowded UK prisons are already failing society (2023)
Digital Artefact
Foster, R., & Anderson, K. (2023). Longer sentences? Overcrowded UK prisons are already failing society. [Magazine]

Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe's Southern Border (2023)
Book Chapter
Paynter, E., & Soliman, F. (2023). Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe's Southern Border. In A. Vila-Freyer, & I. Sirkeci (Eds.), Global Atlas of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (161-176). London, UK: Transnational Press London

This chapter focuses on how Italy’s position as a key port of entry for migrants reaching Europe has influenced shifts in trends and policy, including external border governance, as well as asylum protocols and reception and detention policies. We si... Read More about Italy: Post-1990 Policies and Trends at Europe's Southern Border.

Mitigating risk in restorative justice (2023)
Journal Article
Shapland, J., Buchan, J., Kirkwood, S., & Zinsstag, E. (in press). Mitigating risk in restorative justice. The International Journal of Restorative Justice, https://doi.org/10.5553/TIJRJ.000176

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Justice Voluntary Sector (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Skelton, F., & Haddow, C. (2023, September). The Impact of COVID-19 on the Justice Voluntary Sector. Paper presented at European Society of Criminology (Eurocrim), Florence

Though the Justice Voluntary Sector (JVS) has long supported statutory organisations, recent years have seen the sector becoming enmeshed with the Criminal Justice System and integral to its functioning (Hucklesby & Corcoran, 2016). When COVID-19 loc... Read More about The Impact of COVID-19 on the Justice Voluntary Sector.

Influence policing: Strategic communications, digital nudges, and behaviour change marketing in Scottish and UK preventative policing (2023)
Report
Collier, B., Stewart, J., Horgan, S., Wilson, L., & Thomas, D. (2023). Influence policing: Strategic communications, digital nudges, and behaviour change marketing in Scottish and UK preventative policing. Scottish Institute for Policing Research

Influence policing is an emerging phenomenon: the use of digital targeted ‘nudge’ communications campaigns by police forces and law enforcement agencies to directly achieve strategic policing outcomes. While scholarship, civil society, and journalism... Read More about Influence policing: Strategic communications, digital nudges, and behaviour change marketing in Scottish and UK preventative policing.

Ten years on: from Lampedusa to Pylos (2023)
Digital Artefact
Soliman, F. (2023). Ten years on: from Lampedusa to Pylos. [Blog post]

Teaching Criminology: the Human Element (2023)
Other
Soliman, F., Hafner, M., & McNeill, F. (2023). Teaching Criminology: the Human Element. [Youtube]

As part of the SCCJR’s ‘Teaching Criminology’ series, the Centre is organizing a session which explores the ‘human element’ in teaching criminology. The session bridges the gap between criminologists as researchers and criminologists as teachers... Read More about Teaching Criminology: the Human Element.

Ask the Criminologists: Webinar for Modern Studies teachers (2023)
Digital Artefact
Mabon, K., Gumulinska, I., Clayton, E., Morrison, K., Graham, H., & Foster (PI), R. (2023). Ask the Criminologists: Webinar for Modern Studies teachers. [YouTube video]

Webinar content prepared and recorded by our SCCJR project team for Modern Studies teachers in Scotland. We invited questions from Modern Studies teachers across Scotland and answered them, alongside questions ‘from the floor’ in this live webinar. T... Read More about Ask the Criminologists: Webinar for Modern Studies teachers.

Global security and its social dimensions (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Adalja, A., Al-Rodhan, N., & Soliman, F. (2023, May). Global security and its social dimensions. Presented at Global Security Programme Roundtable, Online

This panel will interrogate the social dimensions of global security. It will discuss the lived experiences of individuals, the role of social sectors such as public health, and innovative ways of studying the social dimensions of global security.

YouTube: Modern Studies learners webinar (2023)
Digital Artefact
Mabon, K., Gumulinska, I., Clayton, E., Morrison, K., Graham, H., & Foster, R. (2023). YouTube: Modern Studies learners webinar. [YouTube video]

Webinar content prepared and recorded by our SCCJR project team for Modern Studies learners in Scotland. We invited questions from Modern Studies learners across Scotland and answered them in this pre-recorded webinar.

Stolen Time: The Temporal Captivity of Migrants in the Italian Border Regime (2023)
Journal Article
Castelli, V., Paynter, E., Sbaffi, G., & Soliman, F. (in press). Stolen Time: The Temporal Captivity of Migrants in the Italian Border Regime. Modern Italy,

This paper explores the use of captivity in Italy’s response to recurrent “migration crises” at the southern border of the European Union. It first considers the case of Lampedusa, where migrants are often warehoused awaiting deportation, despite r... Read More about Stolen Time: The Temporal Captivity of Migrants in the Italian Border Regime.

Conditions, Actions and Purposes (CAP): A Dynamic Model for Community Policing in Europe (2023)
Journal Article
O’Neill, M., van der Giessen, M., Bayerl, P. S., Hail, Y., Aston, E., & Houtsonen, J. (2023). Conditions, Actions and Purposes (CAP): A Dynamic Model for Community Policing in Europe. Policing, 17, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paad014

Despite its popularity as a policing method and evidence of its positive affect on communities, community policing has defied attempts to establish a clear definition and replicable form. Often regarded as an Anglo-American policing method in origin,... Read More about Conditions, Actions and Purposes (CAP): A Dynamic Model for Community Policing in Europe.

Preventing harm: A Zemiology of counter-terrorism (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Soliman, F., & Dinesson, K. (2023, April). Preventing harm: A Zemiology of counter-terrorism

Over the past two decades, counterterrorism in the UK has been characterised by contentious legal and social developments. One such development has been a marked preventative turn in criminal law, exemplified by the bringing into permanence and expan... Read More about Preventing harm: A Zemiology of counter-terrorism.

Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa (2023)
Journal Article
Soliman, F. (2023). Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa. Critical Criminology, 31, 725-741. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-023-09692-x

In this paper I examine authorities’ management of migrant boats on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, as an example of environmental border harm. A danger to trawlers, sunken wrecks are also hazardous to the environment, with pollutants such as oil and... Read More about Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa.