This summary highlights policing-related resources that have been added to the NPL collection in the last week.
Inc: Acquired brain injuries, Domestic abuse and lonelification, Honour-based violence, Social media and violence, Women’s imprisonment.
Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. 2026. Ketamine – an updated review of use and harms. London: Home Office.
Cox, C. and James, A. 2026. Reorganisation, leadership, and the real problem policing is trying to solve. London: Police Foundation
Kent, H. and Gilmour, S. 2026. Acquired brain injury: an invisible consequence of domestic abuse for women in the justice system. London: HM Inspectorate of Probation.
Women’s Justice Board. 2026. Women’s justice board recommendations for reducing women's imprisonment. London: Ministry of Justice.
Barber, M. 2024. Tracking procedural justice in stop and search pedestrian encounters with police body-camera records: a proof of concept for business as usual. Cambridge: University of Cambridge.
Anciones-Anguita, K. et al. 2026. Adolescents' interaction in WhatsApp groups: The normalisation of violent content. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
This study investigates how Spanish teenagers interact within WhatsApp groups and how such interactions contribute to the dissemination and normalisation of violence during a critical stage of psychosocial development.
Gillies-Goldsmith, T. 2026. "Although her words said no, her actions spoke otherwise": Potential jurors' understanding of the "reasonable belief" element of sexual assault law. Violence Against Women.
Using thematic analysis, we explored how potential jurors (N = 50) make judgments about consent communication and the behaviors that, when informed by the reasonable belief standard, are perceived to communicate (non)consent.
Kelleher, S. et al. 2026. When myths shape verdicts: A theory and intervention for jury biases against victim-survivors in rape trials. Journal of Criminal Justice.
“This paper examines a trio of studies which examine the role and malleability of rape myths in juror's victim evaluations and their verdict decisions.”
Skoog Waller, S. & Forinder, U. 2026. Speaking through silence: The lonelification at the core of domestic abuse. Violence Against Women.
“Presents the concept lonelification to offer a framework for the understanding of lonely-making as a core aspect of DVA, which targets women's sense of self, reality, and connectedness.”
Uhl, A. & Hardie, B. 2026. Revisiting bad apples and bad barrels: Person × setting interactions in corruption. Justice Quarterly.
“The study concludes that corruption is better understood as an outcome of person-setting interaction. Bad apples are contextualized by their barrels and bad barrels are defined by their apples.”
Villacampa, C. 2026. Addressing honour-based violence: Comparative perspectives. International Journal of Law Crime and Justice.
“Drawing on insights from nine European countries, the collection does not present a linear trajectory of improvement but a mosaic of simultaneous struggles — theoretical, legal-institutional and judicial — that together characterise the present European landscape.”
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