Thinking About Policing
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Catching serious offenders through the minor offences they also commit — Roach and Pease's 'those who do big bad things also do little bad things'.
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What self-selection policing can reveal through minor offences, what the driving research establishes, and the limits on searches and misconduct prediction.
What procedural justice means for UK policing: four principles, evidence on trust and crime, and practical ways to improve stop and search and supervision.
Professor Jason Roach helped develop self-selection policing: using selected minor offences as behaviour-based opportunities to identify wider serious offending. His wider contribution is practical psychology built for police use.
