Safer Communities: Volume 17 Issue 4

Rethinking mental health provision in the secure estate for children and young people: a framework for integrated care (SECURE STAIRS)

Jenny Taylor, Lisa Shostak, Andrew Rogers, Paul Mitchell

The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges to achieving positive outcomes for young people within the secure estate in England, and introduces a psychologically…

Guardians of the hallways? School resource officers and bullying

Ryan Broll, Robin Lafferty

School resource officers (SROs) have become commonplace in schools across the USA. Although their visibility may allow them to function as capable guardians, little research has…

Body-worn cameras: determining the democratic habitus of policing

Baris Cayli, Charlotte Hargreaves, Philip Hodgson

This study advances our knowledge about the effectiveness of body-worn cameras (BWCs) through exploring the perceptions of English police officers in three principal areas…

Navigating drugs at university: normalisation, differentiation and drift?

David Patton

Whilst drug use appears to be common amongst university students, the purpose of this paper is to move beyond mere drug prevalence, and use the six dimensions of normalisation to…

Business crime reduction partnerships: examining a holistic approach

Andrew B. Stafford, Jonathan Hobson

There has been a widespread move in England’s city centres to a business crime reduction partnership (BCRP) model that welcomes businesses from all commercial sectors and that…