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Policing hate crime: Past, present and future challenges (2019)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2019). Policing hate crime: Past, present and future challenges. Policing Insight,

Professor Peter Joyce and Dr Wendy Laverick explore how hate crime has evolved since the Second World War, the impact of the more recent rise of far right extremism and the challenges facing policing in the current political climate.

The menopause and the female police workforce (2019)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., Joyce, P., Calvey, D., & Cain, L. (2019). The menopause and the female police workforce. British journal of community justice : BJCJ, 15(2), 59-81

© 2019 Manchester Metropolitan University. Drawing upon previously unpublished findings from a wider study that addressed the impact of austerity and force change programmes upon the older female police workforce, this paper presents secondary analys... Read More about The menopause and the female police workforce.

Good conduct: How can protests be ethically policed? (2019)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2019). Good conduct: How can protests be ethically policed?. Policing Insight,

Ten years ago, London was the scene of the G20 Summit protests. This week climate change activists caused major disruption in the city. Protests are part and parcel of a liberal democracy, but how do we ensure they are ethically policed? Professor Pe... Read More about Good conduct: How can protests be ethically policed?.

Macpherson report: How the police service responded to the charge of institutional racism (2019)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2019). Macpherson report: How the police service responded to the charge of institutional racism. Policing Insight,

It is twenty years since Sir William Macpherson's report into the MPS' investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence described the force as institutionally racist. Visiting Professor in Criminology Peter Joyce and Senior Lecturer in Criminology D... Read More about Macpherson report: How the police service responded to the charge of institutional racism.

Policing by consent: Austerity has eroded police legitimacy (2018)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2018). Policing by consent: Austerity has eroded police legitimacy. Policing Insight,

The police service has faced a prolonged period of unprecedented cuts. Visiting Professor in Criminology at the University of Glyndŵr Peter Joyce and Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Manchester Metropolitan University Dr Wendy Laverick argue that th... Read More about Policing by consent: Austerity has eroded police legitimacy.

Brexit, Crime and Security: What does the future look like for UK law enforcement? (2018)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Joyce, P. (2018). Brexit, Crime and Security: What does the future look like for UK law enforcement?. Policing Insight,

As the Government's assessment of its future security partnership with the EU is published, Peter Joyce, Visiting Professor in Criminology at the University of Glyndŵr and Dr Wendy Laverick, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Manchester Metropolitan U... Read More about Brexit, Crime and Security: What does the future look like for UK law enforcement?.

Spit guards, ethical policing and the need for an evidence-based approach (2018)
Journal Article
Joyce, P., & Laverick, W. (2018). Spit guards, ethical policing and the need for an evidence-based approach. Safer Communities, 17(3), 145-155. https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-04-2018-0013

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the advantages and disadvantages of the use of spit guards by police forces in the UK and to make recommendations regarding an evidence-based approach to decisions related to the use of such equipment.... Read More about Spit guards, ethical policing and the need for an evidence-based approach.

[in progress-JLE] Transnational crime (2016)
Journal Article
Laverick, W. (2017). [in progress-JLE] Transnational crime. Policing and Society, 27(3), 324-340. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2016.1250054

The Gender Agenda in an Age of Austerity (2015)
Journal Article
Laverick, W., & Cain, L. (2015). The Gender Agenda in an Age of Austerity. Policing, 9(4), 362-376. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pav017

© The Author 2015. This article reports on a research project undertaken to assess the implications and consequences of the Comprehensive Spending Review and associated Force Change Programmes upon the female police workforce in England and Wales, al... Read More about The Gender Agenda in an Age of Austerity.

Accessing inside: Ethical dilemmas and pragmatic compromises (2010)
Book Chapter
Laverick, W. (2010). Accessing inside: Ethical dilemmas and pragmatic compromises. In J. Scott-Jones, & S. Watt (Eds.), Ethnography in Social Science Practice (73-88). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203876305

In this chapter, I will focus upon issues relating to accessing and conducting research within the institutional setting of the prison.1 It will discuss particular issues raised in conducting prison research in general and then will go on to discuss... Read More about Accessing inside: Ethical dilemmas and pragmatic compromises.

Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives? (2007)
Book Chapter
Laverick, W. (2007). Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives?. In J. S. Jones, & J. Raisborough (Eds.), Risks, Identities and the Everyday (83-98). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315606552

We know very little about how people define risk (Tulloch and Lupton 2003, 16). Yet, interest in risk factors contributing to violence continues to be high as professionals search for tools to identify those ‘at-risk’ and seek empirically based interv... Read More about Violence, risk and identity: ‘doing gender’ or negotiation of structural barriers to non-violent alternatives?.