Outputs (25)

Police reform, research and the uses of 'expert knowledge'. (2018)
Journal Article
FYFE, N.R. and RICHARSON, N. 2018. Police reform, research and the uses of 'expert knowledge'. European journal of policing studies [online], 5(3): police-academic partnerships: working with the police in policing, pages 147-162. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/4pzx2f5p

This paper examines the interplay between research and police reform. Focussing on the creation of Scotland’s national police force in 2013 it examines the role of research as ‘expert knowledge’ in the political and policy debate leading up to the re... Read More about Police reform, research and the uses of 'expert knowledge'..

Police leadership in times of transition. (2017)
Journal Article
MOGGRÉ, M., DEN BOER, M. and FYFE, N.R. 2018. Police leadership in times of transition. Policing [online], 12(4), pages 388-397. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pax041

Large-scale police reforms in the Netherlands and Scotland were accompanied by transitions in police leadership. For the purpose of comparative research, unique interview data were collected among the Dutch and Scottish strategic police chiefs who we... Read More about Police leadership in times of transition..

Outlook: paradoxes, paradigms and pluralism; reflections on the future challenges for police science in Europe. (2017)
Journal Article
FYFE, N.R. 2017. Outlook: paradoxes, paradigms and pluralism: reflections on the future challenges for police science in Europe. European police science and research bulletin: special conference edition [online], 2: selected contributions from 2006-2012 CEPOL (European Police College) European police research and science conferences, pages 309-316. Available from: https://bulletin.cepol.europa.eu/index.php/bulletin/article/view/234

In this contribution the author explores two challenges for the future development of police science in Europe. The first challenge concerns the need to become ‘smarter’ in terms of making research evidence ‘part of the conversation’ about police pol... Read More about Outlook: paradoxes, paradigms and pluralism; reflections on the future challenges for police science in Europe..

Policing 2026 evidence review. (2017)
Report
FYFE, N.R., LAYCOCK, G., KOPER, C.S., LUM, C., O'NEILL, M., STANKO, B., HENRY, A. and BROOKES, S. 2017. Policing 2026 evidence review. Edinburgh: SIPR [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/ycku8nf5

Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority commissioned a series of evidence reviews from the Scottish Institute for Policing Research which have helped inform the development of the 2026 strategy. Written by an international group of leading... Read More about Policing 2026 evidence review..

Britain: metropolitan policing agendas in Britain: divergent tendencies in a fragmenting state? (2017)
Book Chapter
EDWARDS, A., CHAMBERS, S., FYFE, N. and HENRY, A. 2017. Britain: metropolitan policing agendas in Britain: divergent tendencies in a fragmenting state? In Devroe, E., Edwards, A. and Ponsaers, P. (eds.). Policing European metropolises: the politics of security in city-regions. Abingdon: Routledge [online], pages 201-228. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315668130-9

This chapter draws on case study research into governing arrangements and agendas in Bristol, Cardiff, London and Edinburgh to question assumptions about the interplay of global and local social relations, elsewhere referred to as 'glocalisation', in... Read More about Britain: metropolitan policing agendas in Britain: divergent tendencies in a fragmenting state?.

Geographies of missing adults. (2016)
Book Chapter
WOOLNOUGH, P.S., STEVENSON, O., PARR, H. and FYFE, N.R. 2016. Geography of missing adults. In Greene, K.S. and Alys, L. (eds.) Missing persons: a handbook of research. Abingdon: Routledge [online], pages 123-134. Available from: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315595603-24/geography-missing-adults-penny-woolnough-olivia-stevenson-hester-parr-nicholas-fyfe

‘Every case is different [...] routine kills. I demand from my people that they look at every case from scratch as if they know nothing and it’s from looking at a case from that way that you will see some details. Some specific elements that make a c... Read More about Geographies of missing adults..

Plural policing in Europe: relationships and governance in contemporary security systems. (2016)
Journal Article
O'NEILL, M. and FYFE, N.R. 2017. Plural policing in Europe: relationships and governance in contemporary security systems. Policing and society [online], 27(1): plural policing in Europe: relationships and governance in contemporary security systems, pages 1-5. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2016.1220554

References to ‘plural policing’, ‘policing beyond the police’ and the ‘extended policing family’ are now commonplace in many discussions of policing in late modern societies. There is a danger that claims about the dynamic and changing nature of plur... Read More about Plural policing in Europe: relationships and governance in contemporary security systems..

Evaluation of police and fire reform: year 1 summary report. (2016)
Report
FYFE, N., WOOLVIN, M., ANDERSON, S., BLAND, N., MITCHELL, J. and REID, S. 2016. Evaluation of police and fire reform: year 1 summary report. Edinburgh: Scottish Government [online]. Available from: https://www.gov.scot/publications/evaluation-police-fire-reform-year-1-summary-report/documents/

Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) became operational in 2013 following the passing of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act in 2012. In terms of policing, the Act brought together the eight regional Police forces, th... Read More about Evaluation of police and fire reform: year 1 summary report..

Reform, research and 're-invention'. (2015)
Journal Article
FYFE, N. and HENRY, A. 2015. Reform, research and 're-invention'. Scottish justice matters [online], 3(2), pages 21-22. Available from: http://scottishjusticematters.com/wp-content/uploads/SJM_3-2_June2015_Policing_in_Scotland.pdf

In a piece on ‘Reinventing policing’, Peter Neyroud observes how fundamental changes are currently re-shaping police organisations in many states across the globe: ‘States both old and new, across the developed and developing world, are undertaking p... Read More about Reform, research and 're-invention'..

Living absence: the strange geographies of missing people. (2015)
Journal Article
PARR, H., STEVENSON, O., FYFE, N. and WOOLNOUGH, P. 2015. Living absence: the strange geographies of missing people. Environment and planning D: society and space [online], 33(2), pages 191-208. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1068/d14080p

In this paper ‘missing people’ gain an unstable presence through their (restaged) testimonies recounting individual occupations of material urban public space during the lived practice of absence. We explore ‘missing experience’ with reference to hom... Read More about Living absence: the strange geographies of missing people..