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Police officer’s perspectives of people who use drugs: compassion or stigma? Evidence from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hillen, P., Heyman, I., Dougall, N., Murray, J., Aston, E., Jamieson, M., Speakman, E., & McAuley, A. (2024, March). Police officer’s perspectives of people who use drugs: compassion or stigma? Evidence from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot. Presented at Drugs Research Network Webinar: ‘Drugs, Stigma and Emergency Services’, Online

This presentation explored selected quantitative and qualitative data from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot. The data indicated that police officers in Scotland had a range of views about problem drug use, and people who use drugs (P... Read More about Police officer’s perspectives of people who use drugs: compassion or stigma? Evidence from an evaluation of Police Scotland’s naloxone pilot.

'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Aston, E. (2014, September). 'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing. Paper presented at 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Prague, Czech Republic

Aston, E. (2014, September). 'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing. Paper presented at 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Prague, Czech Repub... Read More about 'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing.