This summary highlights policing-related resources that have been added to the NPL collection in the last week. Inc: Adultification, Investigative decision making, Out-of-court resolution, Police interviews, County lines, Juror decision-making.
Quinton, P. et al. 2026. Unintended consequences of being stopped by the police as a teenager: summary findings. Ryton-on-Dunsmore: College of Policing.
Reed, A. et al. 2026. Adultification and adultification bias: rapid evidence assessment. Ryton-on-Dunsmore: College of Policing.
Reed, A. et al. 2026. Our black workforce survey: wave three findings. Ryton-on-Dunsmore: College of Policing.
Reed, A. et al. 2026. The professional conversations inter-ethnic peer mentoring programme: an exploratory study of chief officer and executive experiences of a small-scale pilot. Ryton-on-Dunsmore: College of Policing.
Fowler, O. 2025. The influence of social class on investigative decision making by policing students. Lancashire: Edge Hill University.
Alderson, H. et al. 2025. Putting the onus on the offenders: Implementing project cautioning and relationship abuse awareness raising workshops for alleged first-time offenders of domestic violence and abuse. Violence against women.
This article reports on project cautioning and relationship abuse (CARA), an out-of-court resolution used across police forces in England and Wales for lower risk, alleged first-time DVA offenders.
Farrugia, L. 2026. Community and police officer attitudes towards offenders with mental health conditions. Current Issues in Criminal Justice.
This study aimed to explore any differences in perceptions of offenders with mental health conditions in community members and police officers, and to examine if this was impacted upon by police officer experience and gender.
Headd, S. & Willmott, D. 2025. Do pre-trial juror attitudes predict rape trial verdict decisions? Investigating the role of rape myth beliefs, contemporary sexist attitudes and sexual victimization experiences on juror decision-making. British Journal of Criminology.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of rape myth beliefs, contemporary sexist attitudes and sexual victimization experiences upon juror decision-making.
Lee, N. et al. 2026. Perspectives on improving communication during police interviews: Insights from police officers and individuals convicted of child sexual abuse. Journal of Sexual Aggression.
The research demonstrated that interviewing officers need to understand child abuser grooming behaviours, motivations, implicit theories, and cognitive distortions in order to minimise dominance and negative behaviours in interview.
Swancott, L. et al. 2026. "County lines" and child criminal exploitation in the UK: a secondary data analysis of focus groups with young people who attended a theatre-in-education programme. Journal of Sexual Aggression.
Findings from this study highlight an urgent, unmet need for educational interventions for young people to raise awareness of both criminal and sexual exploitation in county lines.
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