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Forty years on: The 1981 Brixton riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 2) (2021)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2021). Forty years on: The 1981 Brixton riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 2). Policing Insight,

Forty years ago this month, rioting erupted in Brixton – and later in 1981 across the country – leading to one of the most significant inquiries into policing in the UK; in the second half of a two-part feature, Dr Wendy Laverick of Hull University a... Read More about Forty years on: The 1981 Brixton riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 2).

Forty years on: The 1981 riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 1) (2021)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2021). Forty years on: The 1981 riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 1). Policing Insight,

Forty years ago this month, rioting erupted in Brixton – and later in 1981 across the country – leading to one of the most significant inquiries into policing in the UK; in the first of a two-part feature, Dr Wendy Laverick of Hull University and Pro... Read More about Forty years on: The 1981 riots and Lord Scarman’s legacy on UK policing (Part 1).

Legitimacy, democracy, decision-making: Policing the Clapham Common vigil (2021)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2021). Legitimacy, democracy, decision-making: Policing the Clapham Common vigil. Policing Insight,

Events that occurred on London’s Clapham Common last weekend received widespread international media coverage, much of which has focused on the nature of policing and querying its appropriateness; Professor Peter Joyce and Dr Wendy Laverick examine s... Read More about Legitimacy, democracy, decision-making: Policing the Clapham Common vigil.

Post-pandemic policing and the long-term threat to police legitimacy (2021)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2021). Post-pandemic policing and the long-term threat to police legitimacy. Policing Insight,

The coronavirus pandemic has called for an extraordinary response from law enforcement; but Dr Wendy Laverick and Professor Peter Joyce believe the increasing politicisation of policing during the pandemic, the sidelining of PCCs and introduction of... Read More about Post-pandemic policing and the long-term threat to police legitimacy.