Police stop and search: How academics can help forces to get their tactics right

Megan O'Neill; Elizabeth  Aston

Police stop and search: How academics can help forces to get their tactics right

Megan O'Neill
, Elizabeth Aston

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Abstract

With knife crime rising, the controversy over the use and benefits of stop and search takes on greater urgency. Dr Megan O’Neill of the University of Dundee and Dr Liz Aston of Edinburgh Napier University explain how stop and search was transformed in Scotland by police and academics working together.

Original language	English
Journal	Policing Insight
Publication status	Published - 13 May 2019

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