Craig Paterson

• PhD Criminal Justice
• Associate Head at Sheffield Hallam University

Young women and girls who have experienced child sex trafficking, poor identification, secondary victimization and a lack of understanding of the problem are at the forefront of their experience within the criminal justice system in England and Wales. Notable example of this would be the Rotherham/Rochdale ‘grooming scandals’ whereby girls as young...

The growth of the global Black Lives Matter movement has shone a renewed spotlight on the universal experience of victimization in the form of under-protection and over-policing for marginalized communities across the world. This paper uses this debate as an entry point for a discussion about what a more victim-oriented policing might look like and...

The evolution of criminal justice technologies is inextricably linked to the emergence of new modes of electronic and digital governance that have become essential components of a surveillance and crime control culture continually seeking out novel responses to actual and perceived threats. The slow emergence of these technologies in the second par...

Analysis based on semi structured interviews with police participants involved in transnational policing.

Analysis based on semi structured interviews with police participants involved in transnational policing.

The increase in calls for police reform following the death of George Floyd has led to renewed debate about social inequality and the role of policing in society. Modern bureaucratic police systems emerged from locally administered structures and Anglo-American policing models continue to be aligned, to varying degrees, with the political, socio-cu...

Executive summary of research into the transnational investigation of modern slavery.

The police and organised crime groups (OCGs) continually adapt to be one step ahead as OCGs prosper from globalisation and the tools of late modernity to operate in new spaces to avoid detection. OCGs move online into virtual spaces or spread their criminal enterprises across state borders and into legitimate businesses. So, how do the police view...

Research carried out by Severns (2015) and Paterson, Severns and Brogan (2019 and 2020) indicated the existence of a strong culture of willing and able police officers working at the transnational level, gathering intelligence and evidence on serious and organised crime. Heeres (2012, p.120) calls for an adoption of ‘Glocal policing: Think global,...

In 2015 the United Kingdom (UK) introduced the Modern Slavery Act to help improve the response to the threat posed by the trafficking of human beings both within the UK and across its borders. Herewith, this paper presents a rapid evidence assessment of the development of joint investigation teams and their role in human trafficking investigations...

Since the seminal 1999 Macpherson report, hate crime has become a barometer for contemporary police relations with vulnerable and marginalised communities. The need to understand hate has resulted in a demand for impartial law enforcement and skilled police officers who appreciate the nuances of hatred and its impact on vulnerable populations. Howe...

Understanding the evolution of the global market in electronic offender monitoring

This article assesses the development and implementation of the Community Remedy anti-social behaviour policy by Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in England and Wales. The Community Remedy, introduced by the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act (2014), allows victims of ‘low-level’ anti-social behaviour to select an informal action fo...

Policing develops in different ways at different times and to differing demands in states around the world. Thus, policing and security models are established and evolve in the context of the host society. In the UK, modern bureaucratic policing emerged from a locally focused and administered system. Following on from this, contemporary Anglo-Ameri...

This chapter proposes ways to actively shape future cross-cultural police leadership and collaboration within and across police cultures. The ideas presented are intended to create dialogue across modern police organizations and those who lead them. All four authors are connected with police work either as police officers, police researchers, or cr...

The global policy drift towards community policing and an enhanced philosophical and practical orientation towards victims of crime has been slow but incrementally successful in some jurisdictions. This article uses a comparative approach to review the different conceptual and theoretical assumptions that underpin thinking about policing to tentati...

A human rights approach to the policing of mental ill-health raises fundamental questions about the vulnerability of people in the care of the police, the appropriateness of police interventions, and how societies define and delineate the role and function of the police and health sectors. It is the challenge of understanding and interpreting the p...

A human rights approach to the policing of mental ill-health raises fundamental questions about the vulnerability of people in the care of the police, the appropriateness of police interventions, and how societies define and delineate the role and function of the police and health sectors. It is the challenge of understanding and interpreting the p...

Electronic monitoring (EM) technologies or ‘tagging’, as the ankle bracelet is known, have been subject to much experimentation across the criminal justice landscape, yet there remains a good deal of conjecture concerning the purpose and subsequent effectiveness of these technologies. This article calls for renewed consideration of both the potenti...

In the UK and elsewhere, restorative justice and policing are core components of a range of university programmes; however, currently no such text exists on the intersection of these two areas of study. This book draws together these diverse theoretical perspectives to provide an innovative, knowledge-rich text that is essential reading for all tho...

Most people who come into contact with the Police Service can be described, in some way or other, as vulnerable. Victims, offenders, witnesses, and bystanders are all exposed to social conflict and attempts by the police to restore order. Thus, while vulnerability is context-specific it is largely defined via deficit frameworks that view individual...

O crescente terreno psicológico da gestão do crime e desordem tem tido um impacto transformador sobre a utilização das tecnologias de monitorização eletrônica. As tecnologias de vigilância, tais como monitoração eletrônica (ME), biométrica e vigilância por câmeras floresceram em ambientes comerciais que vendem os benefícios das tecnologias associai...

This chapter proposes ways to actively shape future cross-cultural police leadership and collaboration within and across police cultures. The ideas presented are intended to create dialogue across modern police organizations and those who lead them. All four authors are connected with police work either as police officers, police researchers, or cr...

Electronic monitoring (EM) of offender technologies developed as responses to the problem of prison overcrowding and the enhanced focus upon re-introducing market values to the criminal justice sector, incorporating advances in information and communication technological infrastructures into new modes of crime control. At first glance, EM technolog...

This chapter explores the role of leadership in restorative policing in England and Wales and the impact of the external criminal justice policy environment on attempts to embed restorative approaches into police practice. It is clear that certain aspects of restorative justice chime with long-standing values in police culture, not least the emphas...

Since the ’crisis of legitimacy’ in policing during the 1970s, numerous attempts have been made to professionalise the Police Service in England and Wales. One enduring aspect of police professionalisation has involved an uneven and incomplete shift from training to education, yet the history of reform in this area has been littered with recurring...

Introduction The dominant reform agenda of the police service in England and Wales for the last three decades has revolved around the re-emergence of community policing and a languorous cultural shift from ‘rules’ to ‘values’ (Clark, 2005). At the heart of this shift is conflict between a reflective emphasis on the underpinning ‘values’ of policing...

This article explores the potential benefits of developing partnerships with victims in managing threats to their personal safety via smart police use of electronic monitoring technologies. The central premise for this position is that traditional surveillance responses that seek to manage offending behaviour have limited effectiveness and do not c...

The evolution of the policing role over the last decade has led to 33 police forces in England and Wales integrating restorative justice practices, in one form or another, into their responses to minor crime committed for the first time by both youths and adults. Most recently, this reform dynamic has been used in response to more serious offences...

This paper reviews the current English-language literature on developments in police training and education in order to identify common areas where higher education ‘adds value’ to police learning and development. Reforms in training and education are constituent parts of the ongoing shift to a service-oriented professional police in a number of co...

This paper reviews the current English-language literature on developments in police training and education in order to identify common areas where higher education ‘adds value’ to police learning and development. Reforms in training and education are constituent parts of the ongoing shift to a service-oriented professional police in a number of co...

The coalition government have pledged a commitment to a shift from 'Big Government' that presumes to know best, to the 'Big Society' that trusts in people for ideas and innovation to mend Britain's 'broken society'. While the policy implications of this shift remain opaque at this stage, further work has been undertaken to articulate what this stra...

Recent years have witnessed an increase in new ‘technologies of control’ that decrease reliance upon labour intensive forms of policing. The electronic monitoring of offenders represents just one section of the expanding industry in ‘techno-corrections’ that incorporates elements of the private security, military and telecommunications industries....