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Treading the front-line: Tartanisation and Police Academic Partnerships (2018)
Journal Article
Martin, D., & Wooff, A. (2020). Treading the front-line: Tartanisation and Police Academic Partnerships. Policing, 14(2), 325-336. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pay065

Recognized as an International Leader in the development of Police Academic Collaborations, the Scottish Institute of Police Research has had a key role in contributing to evidence-based approaches in policing, supporting a strategic approach to inno... Read More about Treading the front-line: Tartanisation and Police Academic Partnerships.

The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody (2017)
Journal Article
Wooff, A., & Skinns, L. (2017). The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody. Punishment and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474517722176

Police custody is a complex environment, where police officers, detainees and other staff interact in a number of different emotional, spatial and transformative ways. Utilising ethnographic and interview data collected as part of a five-year study w... Read More about The role of emotion, space and place in police custody in England: Towards a geography of police custody.

The ethics of researching the police : dilemmas and new directions. (2015)
Book Chapter
Skinns, L., Wooff, A., & Sprawson, A. (2015). The ethics of researching the police : dilemmas and new directions. In M. Brunger, S. Tong, & D. Martin (Eds.), Introduction to policing research : taking lessons from practice (185-203). Routledge

This chapter examines key ethical dilemmas faced by social science researchers. It explores informed and voluntary consent, confidentiality and anonymity, and relationships in the field, but with specific reference to research on the police, drawing... Read More about The ethics of researching the police : dilemmas and new directions..

A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Lampinen, J. M., Erickson, W. B., Skelton, F. C., McIntyre, A. H., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2015). A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis. Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 319-334. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0025

Purpose

– The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of seven variables that emerge from forensic research on facial-composite construction and naming using contemporary police systems: EvoFIT, Feature and Sketch.

Design/methodology/app... Read More about A decade of evolving composites: regression- and meta-analysis.

Preliminary findings on police custody delivery in the twenty-first century: Is it ‘good’ enough? (2015)
Journal Article
Skinns, L., Wooff, A., & Sprawson, A. (2015). Preliminary findings on police custody delivery in the twenty-first century: Is it ‘good’ enough?. Policing and Society, 27(4), 358-371. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1058377

Since the 1980s, police custody in England and Wales has seen the civilianisation and privatisation of key roles formerly performed by police officers and changes to how police custody suites are managed and owned. These changes have been encapsulate... Read More about Preliminary findings on police custody delivery in the twenty-first century: Is it ‘good’ enough?.

Homeless young people, families and change: family support as a facilitator to exiting homelessness. (2011)
Journal Article
Mayock, P., Corr, M.-L., & O'Sullivan, E. (2011). Homeless young people, families and change: family support as a facilitator to exiting homelessness. Child and Family Social Work, 16, 391-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00753.x

The families of homeless young people are most often portrayed as a precipitating factor in their homelessness. However, recent studies, particularly those taking a longitudinal approach, have drawn attention to the enabling role of family members an... Read More about Homeless young people, families and change: family support as a facilitator to exiting homelessness..

Young people exiting homelessness: an exploration of process, meaning and definition. (2011)
Journal Article
Mayock, P., O'Sullivan, E., & Corr, M.-L. (2011). Young people exiting homelessness: an exploration of process, meaning and definition. Housing Studies, 26, 803-826. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2011.593131

In the past decade in particular, research attention has shifted from an almost exclusive focus on routes or pathways into homelessness towards the investigation of exits from homelessness. As well as demonstrating the multiple paths possible for you... Read More about Young people exiting homelessness: an exploration of process, meaning and definition..

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..

What are the factors underlying unintended pregnancy in young women in Hull? (2008)
Report
Brown, S., & Thornton-Jones, H. (2008). What are the factors underlying unintended pregnancy in young women in Hull?

The recent public health white paper “Choosing Health” (2004) made significant commitments to sexual health and in particular the reduction of unintended teenage pregnancies, especially in areas with high teenage conception rates. Despite a strong lo... Read More about What are the factors underlying unintended pregnancy in young women in Hull?.

Scatters and clusters in time and space: implications for delivering integrated and inclusive transport (2003)
Journal Article
Hine, J., & Grieco, M. (2003). Scatters and clusters in time and space: implications for delivering integrated and inclusive transport. Transport Policy, 10(4), 299-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0967-070x%2803%2900055-6

This paper calls for a refinement in the literature on social exclusion/inclusion, and an alteration in the counterpart policy practices, in order to take account of 'scatter' and 'cluster' dimensions in the patterning of transport deprivation. Disag... Read More about Scatters and clusters in time and space: implications for delivering integrated and inclusive transport.