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Protect and Serve with Privacy: Interrogating the Responsibilisation of Policing Professionals in Their Online Lives (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horgan, S., Wong, Y. N., & Aston, L. (2024, November). Protect and Serve with Privacy: Interrogating the Responsibilisation of Policing Professionals in Their Online Lives. Presented at 2024 American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California

Alongside the proliferation of smart devices and social networking platforms, we have observed a rapid expansion of both the practice and study of police sousveillance. Many pages have been devoted to ‘cop-watching’ and resisting police surveillance,... Read More about Protect and Serve with Privacy: Interrogating the Responsibilisation of Policing Professionals in Their Online Lives.

Organisational Justice in the Management of Online Risks and Harms to UK Police Professionals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aston, E., Wong, Y. N., & Horgan, S. (2024, November). Organisational Justice in the Management of Online Risks and Harms to UK Police Professionals. Presented at 2024 American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California

This paper explores how online risks and harms to police professionals are managed by drawing from 50 interviews with managers from 4 UK police forces. We adopt an organisational justice lens (Colquitt, 2001) to consider fairness in the context of ma... Read More about Organisational Justice in the Management of Online Risks and Harms to UK Police Professionals.

Protecting Public Facing Professionals Online (3PO): Privacy policies and protections in routine police management (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horgan, S., Aston, L., & Wong, Y. N. (2023, September). Protecting Public Facing Professionals Online (3PO): Privacy policies and protections in routine police management. Presented at 23rd Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Florence, Italy

This paper explores the ways in which police organizations conceptualize and operationalize their sense of responsibility for officers’ online safety and privacy. Police officers and organizations are increasingly the targets of cyber-attacks and tec... Read More about Protecting Public Facing Professionals Online (3PO): Privacy policies and protections in routine police management.