This summary highlights policing-related resources that have been added to the NPL collection in the last week. Inc. Child homicide; Modern Slavery; Computer crimes, Autistic Awareness; Rural policing; Markers of decomposition; Emotional Intelligence; and Career-ending misconduct.
Nicholson-Pallett, P. & Kaur, S. 2025. Nineteen more child homicides. Bristol: Women's Aid.
Modern Slavery Organised Immigration Crime. 2025. Guidance for obtaining and managing slavery and trafficking prevention and risk orders. Cornwall: Modern Slavery.
Home Office, 2026. From local to national: A new model for policing. London: Home Office.
Alexander-Pass, N. 2026. Autism awareness and crime: investigating the school-to-prison pipeline. Abingdon: Routledge.
Mulrooney, K. 2026. Rural policing: perspectives of international police leaders. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Munk, T. & Kennedy, M. (eds). 2026. Victimisation in the digital age: an online/offline continuum approach. Abingdon: Routledge.
Ratcliffe, J. 2024. Beyond the hype: what they don’t want you to know about central bank digital currencies. UK: Judith Ratcliffe.
Seabright, P. 2020. She said: a guide for millennial women to speaking and being heard. St Albans: Panoma Press.
Vollentine, C. 2025. Transforming police recruits: the impact of higher education on police officer motivations, expectations and learning. Portsmouth: University of Portsmouth.
Cubitt, T. et al. 2026. Fire without smoke: understanding spontaneous career ending police misconduct. Police Quarterly.
“Using administrative data from a large policing agency in the United Kingdom, we examine the predictive value of unsubstantiated complaints and related career characteristics for career ending misconduct.”
Dieltjes, P. et al. 2026. From cold case to conviction: How advanced DNA technologies such as mtDNA sequencing connected two brutal homicides. Forensic Science International: Genetics.
“We describe how a cold case review initiated in 2016 of a 2004 homicide, followed by advanced forensic analyses, led to the identification of a suspect and linked this individual to another cold case being a 2003 homicide.”
Dong Bin, O. et al. 2026. Forensic analysis and evaluation of file-wiping applications in Android OS. Journal of Forensic Sciences.
“Our study evaluates the effectiveness of file-wiping applications on the Android OS from the anti-forensic perspective.”
Hecker, A. et al. 2026. The scent of death: a case study for volatile markers of decomposition on a concrete floor. Journal of Forensic Sciences.
“Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) released during human decomposition are chemically diverse and can provide forensic evidence indicating the prior presence of a corpse.”
Ingram, J. et al. 2026. A view from the middle: police supervisors’ cultural role orientations and emotional intelligence. Police Quarterly.
“Supervisors' emotional intelligence (EI) was a key predictor of supervisor types, with higher EI associated with more balanced, positive orientations”
Petersen, K. et al. What motivates police officers to be proactive and evidence-based? Analyzing organizational and individual correlates. Police Quarterly.
“Specifically, we assess the relationship between officer perceptions of organizational, individual, and external characteristics and their self-reported frequency of proactivity.”
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