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Dr Layla Skinns is a member of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Sheffield. Her main areas of interest are currently police, policing, and police discretion and governance, in the context of the police custody process in England and Wales, and in other common-law jurisdictions. She also has a strong interest in multi-agency criminal justice partnerships, such as the community safety partnerships, which was the subject of her PhD, and a keen interest in mixed-methods research. Before joining the Centre for Criminological Research, Layla worked at the University of Cambridge, where she was the Adrian Socio-Legal Research Fellow at Darwin College and a Teaching Associate at the Institute of Criminology on the MSt. in Applied Criminology for senior police, prison and probation staff. Whilst working as a Research Fellow at Darwin College, she co-organised the prestigious Darwin College Lecture Series on the theme of risk. Layla has also previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, King’s College London.