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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.

Into the Planthroposcene - together with the photosynthetic ones (2023)
Digital Artefact
Carabelli, G., & Maclean, G. (2023). Into the Planthroposcene - together with the photosynthetic ones. [Video]

How present are plants in your life? Do you notice them, or consider them part of the background? This video explores the relationships we have with the photosynthetic ones - those beings thanks to whom we can breathe, and thus be alive. By learning... Read More about Into the Planthroposcene - together with the photosynthetic ones.

Independent review – Independent advisory group on new and emerging technologies in policing: final report (2023)
Report
Aston, E. (2023). Independent review – Independent advisory group on new and emerging technologies in policing: final report. Edinburgh: Scottish Government

This report explores a rights based, transparent, evidence-based, legal, ethical and socially responsible approach to adopting emerging technologies in policing, in a manner that upholds public confidence and safety. Alongside the importance of legal... Read More about Independent review – Independent advisory group on new and emerging technologies in policing: final report.

Justice Social Work and the National Care Service (2023)
Digital Artefact
Buchan, J. (2023). Justice Social Work and the National Care Service. [Blog post]

Blog piece for SCCJR on the potential implications of the National Care Service reforms for Justice Social Work.

Human Trafficking Situation in Ukraine and Stakeholder Mapping 2023: A Report Produced for the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI) (2023)
Report
Hoff, S., Cherepakha, K., & Sharapov, K. (2023). Human Trafficking Situation in Ukraine and Stakeholder Mapping 2023: A Report Produced for the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI). Amsterdam: European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI)

This report was commissioned within the context of the ELECT THB project, which aims to enhance the identification and investigation of trafficking in human beings (THB) for sexual and labour exploitation and increase collaboration between law enfor... Read More about Human Trafficking Situation in Ukraine and Stakeholder Mapping 2023: A Report Produced for the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI).

Human Trafficking Situation in Poland and Stakeholder Mapping 2023: A Report Produced for the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI) (2023)
Report
Hoff, S., Dawid, I., & Sharapov, K. (2023). Human Trafficking Situation in Poland and Stakeholder Mapping 2023: A Report Produced for the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI). Amsterdam: European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI)

This report was commissioned within the context of the ELECT THB project, which aims to enhance the identification and investigation of trafficking in human beings (THB) for sexual and labour exploitation and increase collaboration between law enforc... Read More about Human Trafficking Situation in Poland and Stakeholder Mapping 2023: A Report Produced for the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control (HEUNI).

Progressive penality as performance (2023)
Journal Article
Buchan, J., & McNeill, F. (2023). Progressive penality as performance. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 62(3), 325-340. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12516

Scotland's prison population remains stubbornly high despite reforms to sentencing and community penalties (most recently in 2016). Seeking to advance the debate on punishment in Scotland, we use empirical data to support a novel theoretical synthesi... Read More about Progressive penality as performance.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of the organisations of persons with disabilities (2022)
Journal Article
Sharapov, K., Anderson, D., Burova, O., Nazarenko, V., & Polishchuk, O. (2022). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of the organisations of persons with disabilities. Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing, 2022(2), 177-186. https://doi.org/10.15407/sociology2022.02

Згідно з даними Національної соціальної служби та Пенсійного фонду, в Україні станом на початок 2021 року було зареєстровано щонайменше 2 724 100 осіб з інвалідністю. Утім, фактичні цифри можуть бути вищими через брак достовірної докладної статистики... Read More about The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of the organisations of persons with disabilities.

Policing of Drugs in Scotland: Moving beyond the stalemate to redesigning the chess board (2022)
Book Chapter
Fotopoulou, M., & Aston, E. (2022). Policing of Drugs in Scotland: Moving beyond the stalemate to redesigning the chess board. In M. Bacon, & J. Spicer (Eds.), Drug law enforcement, policing and harm reduction: Ending the stalemate. Routledge

This chapter aims to illuminate aspects of the risk environment within which drugs are consumed and policed in Scotland. Firstly, we focus on the macro-level policy context and legislation that governs the way policing of drugs is carried out in Scot... Read More about Policing of Drugs in Scotland: Moving beyond the stalemate to redesigning the chess board.

Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2022, December). Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?. Presented at Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of Education, University of Münster, Germany

The invited lecture reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary.

Dr Kulpa pointed to the uncanny possibilities for queer studies eme... Read More about Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?.

‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice (2022)
Journal Article
Wells, H. M., Aston, E. V., Bradford, B., O'Neill, M., Clayton, E., & Andrews, W. (2023). ‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice. International Journal of Police Science and Management, 25(1), 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/14613557221132962

In recent years, police forces in the United Kingdom have introduced various technologies that alter the methods by which they interact with the public. In a parallel development, many forces have also begun to embrace the concept of procedural justi... Read More about ‘Channel shift’: Technologically mediated policing and procedural justice.

Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches (2022)
Other
Boulila, S., Browne, K., Chauvin, S., Filep, K., Blidon, M., Zarate, M., Akyuz, L., Titley, G., Carastathis, A., & Kulpa, R. (2022). Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches. Dublin

Anti-gender politics pose a grave threat to modern democratic formations because they challenge people's everyday survival, bodily integrity, and self-determination. Anti-gender spans the political spectrum and manifests not only in illiberal and aut... Read More about Press Release. EU Funded Project "Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)" Launches.

Patient, family members and community pharmacists' views of a proposed overdose prevention intervention delivered in community pharmacies for patients prescribed high‐strength opioids for chronic non‐cancer pain: An explorative intervention development study (2022)
Journal Article
Mercer, F., Parkes, T., Foster, R., Steven, D., McAuley, A., Baldacchino, A., Steele, W., Schofield, J., & Matheson, C. (2023). Patient, family members and community pharmacists' views of a proposed overdose prevention intervention delivered in community pharmacies for patients prescribed high‐strength opioids for chronic non‐cancer pain: An explorative intervention development study. Drug and Alcohol Review, 42(3), 517-526. https://doi.org/10.1111/dar.13554

Introduction
Despite opioid prescribing for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) having limited therapeutic benefits, recent evidence indicates significant increases in the prescribing of high-strength opioids for individuals with CNCP. Patients prescribe... Read More about Patient, family members and community pharmacists' views of a proposed overdose prevention intervention delivered in community pharmacies for patients prescribed high‐strength opioids for chronic non‐cancer pain: An explorative intervention development study.

Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions (2022)
Journal Article
Falzon, D., Aston, E. V., Carver, H., Masterton, W., Wallace, B., Sumnall, H., Measham, F., Fletcher, E., Gittins, R., Priyadarshi, S., & Parkes, T. (2022). Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions. Harm Reduction Journal, 19(1), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00686-6

Background
The impact of policing practices on the engagement of people who use drugs (PWUD) with harm reduction services is well evidenced. Although the police have traditionally taken an enforcement role in responding to drug use, it is increasing... Read More about Challenges for drug checking services in Scotland: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions.

Challenges for drug checking services in a Scottish context: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions (2022)
Journal Article
Falzon, D., Aston, E. V., Carver, H., Masterson, W., Wallace, B., Sumnall, H., Measham, F., Fletcher, E., Gittins, R., Priyadarshi, S., & Parkes, T. (2022). Challenges for drug checking services in a Scottish context: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions. Harm Reduction Journal, 19, Article 105. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00686-6

Background
The impact of policing practices on the engagement of people who use drugs (PWUD) with harm reduction services is well evidenced. Although the police have traditionally taken an enforcement role in responding to drug use, it is increasing... Read More about Challenges for drug checking services in a Scottish context: a qualitative exploration of police perceptions.

‘Why would we not want to keep everybody safe?’ The views of family members of people who use drugs on the implementation of drug consumption rooms in Scotland (2022)
Journal Article
Parkes, T., Price, T., Foster, R., Trayner, K. M. A., Sumnall, H. R., Livingston, W., Perkins, A., Cairns, B., Dumbrell, J., & Nicholls, J. (2022). ‘Why would we not want to keep everybody safe?’ The views of family members of people who use drugs on the implementation of drug consumption rooms in Scotland. Harm Reduction Journal, 19(1), Article 99. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00679-5

Background
People who use drugs in Scotland are currently experiencing disproportionately high rates of drug-related deaths. Drug consumption rooms (DCRs) are harm reduction services that offer a safe, hygienic environment where pre-obtained drugs c... Read More about ‘Why would we not want to keep everybody safe?’ The views of family members of people who use drugs on the implementation of drug consumption rooms in Scotland.