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Abstract Policing, Covid-19 and the ‘Rural Idyll’ in Scotland (2025)
Journal Article
Buchan, J., Horgan, S., Wooff, A., & Tatnell, A. (in press). Abstract Policing, Covid-19 and the ‘Rural Idyll’ in Scotland. Policing and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2481117

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on rural ‘policing’ (broadly defined to include a range of institutions involved in order maintenance) remains relatively under-discussed and under-theorised. The pandemic created particular challenges for these se... Read More about Abstract Policing, Covid-19 and the ‘Rural Idyll’ in Scotland.

Influence Policing: domestic digital influence campaigns and algorithmic strategic communications in UK law enforcement and homeland security (2024)
Journal Article
Horgan, S., Collier, B., Stewart, J., & Thomas, D. (online). Influence Policing: domestic digital influence campaigns and algorithmic strategic communications in UK law enforcement and homeland security. British Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae063

This paper conceptualises an emerging model of algorithmic policing; ‘influence policing’. This harnesses the affordances of Internet platforms to conduct domestic digital influence campaigns for crime prevention. These campaigns use sophisticated ta... Read More about Influence Policing: domestic digital influence campaigns and algorithmic strategic communications in UK law enforcement and homeland security.

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., Policek, N., Rogers, C., & Tattum, C. (2024). 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, 14(5), 1106-1120. 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.

Re-territorialising the policing of cybercrime in the post-COVID-19 era: towards a new vision of local democratic cyber policing (2021)
Journal Article
Horgan, S., Collier, B., Jones, R., & Shepherd, L. (2021). Re-territorialising the policing of cybercrime in the post-COVID-19 era: towards a new vision of local democratic cyber policing. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 11(3), 222-239. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-08-2020-0034

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to develop the theorisation of cybercrime in the context of the pandemic, and to sketch out a vision of how law enforcement might respond to a transformed landscape of online crime and offending.

Design/method... Read More about Re-territorialising the policing of cybercrime in the post-COVID-19 era: towards a new vision of local democratic cyber policing.

Barriers to a Cyberaware Scotland (2016)
Journal Article
Horgan, S., & Collier, B. (2016). Barriers to a Cyberaware Scotland. Scottish Justice Matters, 4(3), 19-20

CYBERSECURITY poses particular challenges to policy, policing and the public. Despite recent shifts in policing and security strategies, online victimisation is a major and growing problem for the Scottish criminal justice system. This article seeks... Read More about Barriers to a Cyberaware Scotland.