...Paul Walley; Kari Davies; Ruth Friskney; Aneela Khan; Miranda A.H. Horvath Purpose Only a small proportion of reported incidents of rape and serious sex offences (RASSO) are fully investigated and prosecuted in England and Wales. Part of the problem is the lack of effective police capacity...

... derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence maybe seen at Link to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 licence. Policing Assessment Building rapport...

...Miranda A.H. Horvath; Kari Davies Purpose This special collection is devoted to some of the academic work underpinning Pillars 1 and 2 of Operation Soteria Bluestone (OSB). OSB was an academic police collaboration whose aim was to construct a co-produced evidence-based framework to improve...

... Licensed re-use rights only Qualitative Policing Motivation Resistance Interview Investigative interview Over the past decade, robust research in investigative interviewing has introduced a rapid advancement in our understanding of the principles, strategies and tactics that can form...

... investigations are proving ineffective. The purpose of this study was to capture police officers’ perspective of police specialism while investigating RASSO. Design/methodology/approach A total of 82 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Data collection spanned across two years, from October 2021 until...

... implications The authors identify specific practical implications for law enforcement, namely, that the role of local police in policing cybercrime should be re-envisioned, with a democratic, community-oriented approach at its heart. Originality/value The theoretical perspective outlined is a novel...

... (Home Office, 2019). Consequentially, police forces in both England and Wales and the USA, have used solvability, or prioritisation, matrices to prioritise cases based on their likelihood of eventual resolution (Davis et al., 2012 ; Lloyd-Evans and Bethall, 2009 ; Turner and Kosa, 2003...

... regression, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis and Cox hazard regressions are conducted using a sample of 544 police officers to determine if there a relationship between RHR and engagement in violent encounters by law enforcement, even when controlling for demographics, biological and social covariates...

.../approach Active Risk Assessment System (ARMS) is a tool used to help criminal justice practitioners as they work to support the safe reintegration of those with sexual convictions back into the community. Findings The tool was developed for use by the police, probation and prison services across...