Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 103232 total results. Showing results 19061 to 19080 «950951952953954955956957958Next ›Last » Strip-searching as abjectification: Racism and sexual violence in British policing This article examines police strip-searching practices in the UK. Drawing on newly acquired Freedom of Information data, publicly available testimonies, thematic analysis of official literature and media reports, and first-hand experience, we advance three arguments. First, strip-searching is used systematically, not exceptionally, and targets young people and people of colour, especially Black young men and boys. Second, strip-searching in practice is demonstrably excessive when measured against its stated rationales of ‘crime’ detection and ‘caring’ for detainees; we unpick the circular logics through which it is legitimized in official and public discourse. Third, drawing on Sharpe's notion of the abject, we argue that strip-searching, as a form of normalized sexual violence folded into the rubric of ‘care’, is part of a project of abjectification that aims to exclude the individuals and groups it targets from social and political subjecthood. Theoretical Criminology 24/3/2024 Research article Domestic violence a ‘national threat’ akin to terrorism Police Scotland must create a dedicated domestic violence task force to protect women against a “national threat” on the same level as terrorism and child abuse, campaigners have said. Politicians and campaigners want the task force to emulate the impact of the knife crime unit, which drove down weapon attacks in Scotland 20 years ago. The Times - Subscription at source 24/3/2024 News Inside the Fentanyl trade powering the world’s deadliest drug crisis What started as prescription painkiller is now the cause of a public health emergency. Where does it come from? Stephen Gibbs and Keiran Southern follow the money from China via Mexican gangs to the streets and suburbs of America The Times - Subscription at source 24/3/2024 Feature Pricey cigarettes ignite an Australian gangland crimewave AUSTRALIA: With tax rises bringing the cost of a pack to £32, a booming trade in smuggled tobacco and vapes has led to violence, extortion and murder The Times - Subscription at source 24/3/2024 Feature ‘They signed her death warrant’: how probation service failings left a violent man free to kill The father of Michaela Hall, the charity worker killed by her partner in Cornwall after he was wrongly assessed as only ‘medium risk’ says lessons must be learned The Guardian 24/3/2024 News Serving police officer, 29, charged with child abduction and arranging the sexual exploitation of a child A serving Bedfordshire Police officer has appeared in court charged with child abduction and arranging the sexual exploitation of a child. PC Elliot Wright, 29, a roads policing officer who has now been suspended, appeared at Hatfield Magistrates' Court today. He was arrested in Bedfordshire on Thursday night following reports of concern for a teenage girl. Mail Online 24/3/2024 News Exclusive: Police officers could face sanctions for challenging hate crime complaints, senior figure warns Former superintendent points to “obvious” risk of vexatious complaints under new law. The Scotsman - Subscription at source 24/3/2024 News Police Scotland’s mental health crisis as latest figures shine light on huge problem engulfing force Shock new figures show a mental health crisis engulfing police in Scotland - with everyone from beat cops to senior officers. We can reveal 249,389 days were lost to sickness in one 12 month period of which 58,823 were due to mental health problems caused by a range of conditions including anxiety, depression, insomnia, and post traumatic stress disorder. Daily Record 24/3/2024 News Northamptonshire police and fire commissioner’s year of troubles A police, fire and crime commissioner has announced he will not stand again after receiving unprecedented criticism from the head of his fire and police services, unions, fellow Conservatives and opposition politicians. How did it go so wrong for Stephen Mold, and where does that leave Northamptonshire's police officers, firefighters and the public? BBC 24/3/2024 News Police defend using pepper spray at #WomenWillSpeak rally on Victoria parliament steps AUSTRALIA: Footage shared on social media showed protesters tackled to the ground by officers, with a newspaper photographer also knocked over The Guardian 24/3/2024 News Police admit ‘no resource’ to investigate missing Omaio man NEW ZEALAND: The Raukūmara Range is rugged, dense — and the last place Omaio man Jason Butler was seen alive in October 2021. The 50-year-old was on unsanctioned work experience with a Department of Conservation contractor. The family was told Butler was filing his drink bottle at a river when the contractor left to continue his pest control work. The contractor emerged from the bush alone the next day — and the alarm wasn't raised until four days later. 1 News (New Zealand) 24/3/2024 News Garda caught up in controversy over unwanted €50 bike is to sue the force for damages REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A garda at the centre of a major controversy after he was suspended for more than three years for giving an unwanted bicycle to a pensioner will sue An Garda Síochána for damages, the Sunday Independent can reveal. Meanwhile, Assistant Garda Commissioner Jonathan Roberts is studying a 1,000-page transcript from the recent disciplinary inquiry which cleared the garda of all wrongdoing, trying to establish the extent to which some garda managers changed their testimony. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) - Subscription at source 24/3/2024 News Virtual reality may help screen prospective police officers CANADA: The Lethbridge College’s Centre for Public Safety Applied Research (CPSAR) and Spatial Technologies Applied Research and Training (START), have partnered with multiple policing agencies to find ways to assess decision-making in applicants, recruits and frontline staff using virtual reality. CPSAR is using virtual reality and immersive simulation scenarios to recreate real-world situations for potential officers. The project aims to determine if a public safety applicant’s ethical decision-making ability can be measured, and the hiring process improved, by using these high-tech tools. Lethbridge Herald (Canada) 23/3/2024 News Deputy police boss Philip Clark quits after pub ‘altercation’ arrest Lincolnshire's deputy police and crime commissioner has resigned as police investigate a pub "altercation". Philip Clark's resignation was announced by police and crime commissioner Marc Jones on Friday. Lincolnshire Police said it was investigating an incident said to have happened in a pub near Lincoln on 10 March. BBC 23/3/2024 News AFP Commander and Olympian Danielle Woodward charged with drink driving after crashing car into tree AUSTRALIA: A senior Australian Federal Police (AFP) officer has been stood down after crashing her car into a tree in Canberra and registering a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit. A drink driving charge against Commander Danielle Anne Woodward was mentioned in the ACT Magistrates Court last week. ABC News (Australia) 23/3/2024 News An Officer-Level Examination of the Prevalence and Correlates of Police Body-Worn Camera Activation Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are intended to promote transparency and accountability. However, officer failure to activate BWCs remains a concern. Research has identified types of incidents associated with activation failure, but has not examined activation as a measure of performance. We examine BWC activation as an officer-level decision-making process, assessing the influence of demographics, assignments, and performance (e.g., proactivity) on activation rates over time. Negative binominal and multinomial logistic regression were used to analyze data from 149 officers assigned to wear BWCs during a randomized-controlled trial. Activation rates ranged from 0–88% of calls-for-service. Group-based trajectory modeling identified three activation trends: decreased, increased then decreased, and increased and tapered off. Limited relationships between officer-level predictors and activation were identified. Findings suggest officer characteristics and performance are not primary drivers of BWC activation. Departments should use supervision, retraining, and policy intervention to ensure BWCs are implemented as intended. Police Quarterly - Subscription at source 23/3/2024 Research article Staggered deployment of gunshot detection technology in Chicago, IL: a matched quasi-experiment of gun violence outcomes Objectives: We examine the potential effects of gunshot detection technology longitudinally in Chicago through a synthetic control quasi-experiment. Methods: Police districts receiving gunshot detection technology were compared to a synthetic control unit via a staggered difference-in-difference design. Across eleven unique gunshot detection technology deployment phases, the analyses produce results for aggregate, initial versus expanded, and phase-specific deployment effects across five gun violence outcome measures. Results: Gunshot detection technology had no effect on fatal shootings, non-fatal shootings, general part I gun crimes, or shots fired calls for service. Gun recoveries significantly increased in the aggregate, initial, and expanded models, and in several individual phases relative to controls. Conclusions: The results align with prior literature that has found a procedural benefit, but not a crime prevention benefit, of gunshot detection technology. Law enforcement agencies seeking crime prevention or reduction solutions may be better served by investing in other options. Journal of Experimental Criminology 23/3/2024 Research article The obligation to obey the law: exploring National Differences People vary in the extent to which they generally feel obligated to obey the law. The Obligation to Obey the Law (OOL) plays a major role in how people respond to legal rules and whether they comply or violate such rules. Most existing research on OOL has been non-comparative. The present paper explores national differences in OOL by analyzing data from a survey conducted among a convenience sample (n = 716) of law students in the Netherlands, the US, Israel, and China. In contrast to what existing research on procedural justice and OOL would lead us to expect, the data do not reveal significant differences in OOL across markedly different national populations. It explores why no such differences have been found and what the implications of these findings are for our understanding of OOL and compliance more broadly. Crime Law and Social Change 23/3/2024 Research article Police have demanded records from UK abortion provider 32 times since 2020 British Pregnancy Advisory Service says there is ‘genuine concern’ over rising number of investigations The Guardian 23/3/2024 News How picking a new media adviser turned into a cluster bomb for Police Commissioner AUSTRALIA: Disastrous press conferences. Four media advisers in two years. Police Commissioner Karen Webb is a capable top cop — except for one key component of modern policing. The Daily Telegraph (Australia) - Subscription at source 22/3/2024 News «950951952953954955956957958Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
