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Policing the lockdown: Compliance, enforcement and procedural justice

26th June 2020

Dr Ben Bradford, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science

UCL COVID-19 SERIES: How the police have responded to enforcing the lockdown in the UK has received considerable attention. Ben Bradford, Zoe Hobson, Arabella Kyprianides and Julia Yesberg from the Jill Dando Institute, UCL plus Jonathan Jackson and Krisztián Pósch from the Methodology department of LSE look back and discuss the public's compliance with these tactics over the duration of the lockdown.

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Ben Bradford is Professor of Global City Policing at the Department of Security and Crime Science. He is also Director of the JDI Institute for Global City Policing, an initiative joint funded by UCL, the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) to promote policing research in London. Ben's research interests include public trust, police legitimacy, cooperation and compliance in justice settings, and social identity as a factor in all these processes. He has also published on organisational justice within police agencies, ethnic and other disparities in policing, and elements of public-facing police work such as neighbourhood patrol, community engagement and stop and search. In addition to his work with the MPS and MOPAC, Ben has also collaborated with organisations including the College of Policing, Police Scotland, and West Midlands Police on a wide variety of projects. His book, Stop and Search and Police Legitimacy, was published by Routledge in 2017. He is also editor, along with Beatrice Jauregui, Ian Loader and Jonny Steinberg, of the SAGE Handbook of Global Policing (2016), and co-author, with Kevin Morrell, of Policing and Public Management (Routledge 2018).