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Relationships and responses: Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland (2014)
Journal Article
Wooff, A. (2015). Relationships and responses: Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland. Journal of Rural Studies, 39, 287-295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.11.003

Rural policing, with a few notable exceptions, has been largely absent from the geographic and criminology literature. Yet, examining rural policing is important for revealing details about rural society, and the role that the police play in controll... Read More about Relationships and responses: Policing anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland.

Policing vulnerability? The impacts and implications of no cold calling zones in Angus. (2011)
Report
Wooff, A., & Smith, B. (2011). Policing vulnerability? The impacts and implications of no cold calling zones in Angus. Edinburgh, Scotland: Scottish Institute for Policing Research

Doorstep crime is an increasingly prevalent issue within neighbourhoods around the UK (Doorstoppers, 2011).
There were 12,612 cases of distraction theft in 2005, but crimes committed by cold callers are hard to quantify because nine out of ten go un... Read More about Policing vulnerability? The impacts and implications of no cold calling zones in Angus..