News & Events

What Works? Research by Divya Sukumar, Associate Prof Kim Wade, & Prof Jackie Hodgson has been featured on the College of Policing website:

http://whatworks.college.police.uk/About/

To read about more policing and crime reduction research, or to add your research to the College of Policing map, click here.

Wednesday 2nd November 2016, 12-2pm
Venue: S2.77 (Cowling Room) , Social Sciences

This event is to share information on current projects and collaborations relevant to policing and policing research at the University of Warwick, and to help develop future research ideas. It will be chaired by Professor Jackie Hodgson.

Click here to register for this event.

This networking event is supported by the Centre for Operational Police Research (COPR), the Faculty of Social Sciences and the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.

On Wednesday 12th October, Professor Jackie Hodgson will chairing the "Safeguarding Vulnerable Persons in Custody: Minimising the Risk of Death in Detention" event in central London organised by Public Policy Exchange.

For the event flyer, please click here.

The new publication by Divya Sukumar (PhD student, Psychology), Professor Jackie Hodgson (Law), and Dr Kim Wade (Psychology) considering how the timing of police evidence disclosure impacts custodial legal advice has now been published in the International Journal of Evidence and Proof.

Drawing upon data from 100 criminal lawyers in England and Wales, the paper highlights the importance of pre-interview evidence disclosure for lawyers advising suspects at the police station.

Melissa Colloff (PhD student, Psychology), Dr Kim Wade (Psychology), and Deryn Strange (John Jay College, CUNY) have a new publication. Their paper "Unfair Lineups Make Witnesses More Likely to Confuse Innocent and Guilty Suspects" has just been published in a leading psychology journal, Psychological Science.

In a study containing almost 9000 participants, the authors compare three fair lineup techniques used by the police with unfair lineups in which nothing was done to prevent a distinctive suspect from standing out. The paper highlights the importance of constructing fair lineups for distinctive suspects.

Access the press release here:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/news/getting_digital_line-ups_wrong_can_put_innocents_behind_bars1/

Access the paper, here:

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/07/21/0956797616655789.abstract

Wednesday 22 June 2016, Scarman House, SEBP Midlands Regional Event at the University of Warwick

The most recent Midlands regional SEBP event, supported by Warwick University’s Centre for Operational Policing Research (COPR) and Warwick’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account funding, Nicky Miller (representing the College of Policing) and EMPAC, was hosted at Warwick University on 22/6/16.

Read more information about the event here.

The Centre for Operational Police Research is delighted to be hosting the Midlands branch of the Society of Evidence Based PolicingLink opens in a new window regional annual conference on 22 June, 2016. COPR has obtained some funding from the Warwick's ESRC Impact Acceleration AccountLink opens in a new window to host the conference which will look at how research can be used to inform policing best practice and policy.

You can find the Poster here.

COPR are hosting an Evidence Based Policing Workshop on the 13th July at the Shard from 10am-4:30pm. It is a networking event aimed at academics, policy makers, and police, with talks on predictive policing, behavioural science of policing, custody, decision making, and cyber security.