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Articles by: Megan O'Neill

Police stop and search: How academics can help forces to get their tactics right

13th May 2019

Dr Megan O'Neill, University of Dundee

OPINION: With knife crime rising, the controversy over the use and benefits of stop and search takes on greater urgency. Dr Megan O'Neill of the University of Dundee and Dr Liz Aston of Edinburgh Napier University explain how stop and search was transformed in Scotland by police and academics working together.

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Megan O’Neill is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science at the University of Dundee and Associate Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR). Her current research interests include police culture, stop and search and community policing in the UK and Europe. Dr O'Neill is also leading an international research project on state internet surveillance practices in the Nordic region.