Publications

Read the latest publications from the Centre, including our newly-published finding summaries.

Do people think police are
meeting minimum standards
of service delivery?

The report covers a nationally representative survey of 1,500 people and finds that police services across Britain are failing to meet the public’s minimum standards of service delivery.

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Trees on fire during the 2019-20 Australian summer bushfire crisis. Photo from New Matilda via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 DEED).

What do the public want from police? Towards a Minimum Policing Standard

This project explored what the public want and expect from local policing. This study showed that there is considerable agreement among the public about what service police should provide and on the minimum standards to which police should adhere.

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Trees on fire during the 2019-20 Australian summer bushfire crisis. Photo from New Matilda via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 DEED).

Co-designing community resilience to online child sexual exploitation and abuse victimisation

The aim of this two-year project was to take a place-based and problem-oriented approach to understand and improve offline responses to online child sexual
exploitation and abuse.

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Trees on fire during the 2019-20 Australian summer bushfire crisis. Photo from New Matilda via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 DEED).

Service provision for vulnerable
people in contact with policing:
a strategic view from Bradford

This place-based study mapped services used by vulnerable people in contact with the police across Bradford, through interviews with senior managers in public, private and third sector organisations.

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Viewpoints on vulnerability as a focus for policing and public services

This project explored differing viewpoints on the role and value of vulnerability as an organising focus around which public services and police address situations of harm.

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Connected data analytics reports

Estimating the nature and scale of response police demand

Using police incident data, the project team analysed the nature and scale of response police demand across the Bradford District. Results show that police respond to diverse incidents daily, with the burden on their resources varying significantly.

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Trees on fire during the 2019-20 Australian summer bushfire crisis. Photo from New Matilda via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 DEED).

Geospatial and sociodemographic patterns of unauthorised school absence

Using attendance records obtained from the Department for Education, the team analysed the pre-pandemic rates of unauthorised absences across the Bradford District between 2012 and 2019.

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School absence and Not in Education, Employment or Training

The team investigated the association between school absence (6-16 years of age) and risk of being Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET) (16-18 years of age) using records provided by the Department for Education

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Early Career Researcher Development Fund reports

Domestic abuse service providers and their stories

This project aimed to investigate the power and persistence of dominant narratives in relation to domestic abuse (DA), as witnessed by service providers who support both victims and perpetrators.

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Trees on fire during the 2019-20 Australian summer bushfire crisis. Photo from New Matilda via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 DEED).

Social media-facilitated trafficking of children and young people

This project found that offenders use social media across all crime stages, from the identification and recruitment of victims to their exploitation and control. Different apps and social media tools are used at different stages and for different purposes.

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Trees on fire during the 2019-20 Australian summer bushfire crisis. Photo from New Matilda via Flickr (CC BY 2.0 DEED).