This summary highlights policing-related resources that have been added to the NPL collection in the last week. Inc. Repeat missing children/ Earned regression/ Burglary investigations/ DNA and RNA sequencing workflow.
Badaoui, N. et al. 2025. Frontline police response to domestic abuse incidents involving children. London: Home Office.
Children's Commissioner, 2025. “A production line of pointlessness”. Children on custodial remand. London: Children’s Commissioner.
Europol, 2025. Steal, deal and repeat. How cybercriminals trade and exploit your data. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
Home Office, 2025. Seizures of drugs, England and Wales, financial year ending 2024. London: Home Office.
Howard League for Penal Reform, 2025. Earned regression? How a flawed approach to punishment risks making the prisons crisis worse. London: Howard League for Penal Reform.
Domleo, I. 2025. Repeat missing children: A critical examination of multiagency collaboration between Dorset police, partner agencies and the public in response to children repeatedly going missing. Wales: University of South Wales.
Pavitt, P. 2025. To explore the effectiveness of victim support provided by Dorset police force and other police forces within the UK. Newport: University of South Wales.
Drevin, G. et al. 2025. Interest and limits of using pharmacogenetics in MDMA-related fatalities: a case report. Forensic Science International: Genetics.
“Here, this report discusses an MDMA-related fatality and explores the benefits and limitations of implementing pharmacogenetics (PGx) analysis in such cases.”
Flores, Y. et al. 2025. Development and evaluation of an IR standoff spectrometer prototype for rapid crime scene forensic surveying. Forensic Science International.
“Strong potential is found for the preliminary identification of blood at the crime scene, distinguishing it from potential interferents.”
Goedhart, Y. et al. 2025. Determination of relevant sampling locations for burglary investigations. Forensic Science International.
“The current study aims to identify specific areas that are contacted during different types of interactions with points of entry”
Miao, L. et al. 2025. From dual nucleic acid co-extraction to co-sequencing: a highly integrated next-generation forensic DNA and RNA sequencing experimental workflow. Forensic Science International: Genetics.
“Taken together, the novel integrated workflow could be used to sequence forensic DNA and RNA markers, which provides a promising method to comprehensively reveal DNA and RNA bioinformation with limited crime scene bio-materials.”
Tregle, B. et al. 2025. Hot spots policing: assessing the impact on officer-initiated activity. Police Quarterly.
“This study investigates the effects of hot spots policing on self-initiated officer activity using data from a violent crime reduction strategy implemented in Dallas, TX.”
Van Lith, L. et al. 2025. What do we mean by de-escalation in police-citizen encounters? A scoping review on conceptualization, techniques, and effectiveness. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology.
“Through a scoping review, we conceptualize de-escalation in police-citizen interactions by identifying the different components of de-escalation, the techniques it entails, and what we know about the effectiveness of these techniques.”
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