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“Evidence for the art, craft and science of policing”

UPSI provides an integrated model that develops and uses research evidence to improve the delivery of policing. Our work is directly shaping policy and practice at the national, regional and neighbourhood levels.

The UPSI model is based upon an innovative collaborative approach to research and training. At the University of Glamorgan, police probationer training is undertaken by a team of academic staff working directly alongside experienced police trainers. In conducting research, the team at Cardiff University are frequently engaged in direct collaborations with police officers. This helps

to ensure that our findings and recommendations fully reflect the complexities of the realities of modern police work, whilst also being rigorously informed by robust methodological frameworks.

Part of UPSI’s role in working with the police is to challenge and critique accepted ways of doing things, in order to encourage reform and improvement where it is needed.

Another important facet of the UPSI approach is that it is genuinely inter-disciplinary in its orientations. The UPSI team includes experienced field researchers with backgrounds in: Criminology; Experimental Psychology; Geography; Re-

search Methods; Educational Research; History; and Sociology.

It is this combination of ingredients that has led us to be recognised internationally as a leading centre for innovative thinking about the future of policing.

POLICY / AGENDA SETTING: Professor rod morgan commissioned to conduct a study for welsh assembly government on the possibility of devolving responsibility for youth justice to wales.

Professor martin innes invited to be a member of npia’s advisory group for the national knowledge strategy for policing Professor martin innes appointed to

For further information go to: www.upsi.org.uk advise HMIC Policing of Anti-Social Universities’ Police Science Institute Cardiff School of Social Sciences Glamorgan Building King Edward VII Avenue Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3WT t: +44 (0) 2920 875440 e: upsi@cardiff.ac.uk

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KEY PUBLICATIONS: Innes, M. (2010, forthcoming) ‘The Art, Craft and Science of Policing’, Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

KEY PROJECTS: South Wales Police Neighbourhood Policing – Harnessing the Power of Community Intelligence (i-NSI) January 2009 to January 2010 Welsh Assembly Government The Causes and Consequences of Community Cohesion in Wales: A Secondary Analysis January 2009 to March 2009 Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary Policing Anti-social Behaviour: Repeat and Vulnerable Victims Analysis Using the British Crime Survey January 2010 to March 2010 Welsh Assembly Government Perceptions and Experiences of Crime and Disorder Amongst Older People in Wales January 2010 to April 2010 City of London Police / London First Neighbourhood Policing in the Business Community July 2008 to Ongoing Victoria Police Using i-nsi to understand Community Safety issues in Melbourne, Australia September 2008 to October 2009 Association of Chief Police Officers (Homicide Working Group / NPIA) Measuring the Impact of Homicide on Community Reassurance and Public Confidence August 2007 to March 2010 Association of Chief Police Officers (Terrorism and Allied Matters) Hearts and Minds and Eyes and Ears: The Role of Neighbourhood Policing in Counter-Terrorism 2007 Lancashire Constabulary Developing the use of i-nsi in Lancashire October 2007 to April 2008

Innes, M. (2010) ‘A Mirror and a Motor: Researching and Reforming Policing in an Age of Austerity’, in Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice Weston, N. and M. Innes (2010) Terrorism. In M. Maguire et al. (eds.) The Handbook of Crime.

Cullompton: Willan.

Weston, N.J. (2010). Reassurance Policing. Encyclopedia of Victimisation and Crime Prevention.

Roberts, C. and M. Innes (2009) ‘Before and After Gun Violence: On the (In)articulation of Formal and Informal Social Control’, Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Morgan. R. (2008) Summary Justice: Fast - but fair? Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Kings College, London.

Lowe, T. and M. Innes (2008) Countering Terror: Violent Radicalisation and Situational Intelligence. Prison Service Journal.

Lowe, T., M. Innes and C. Roberts (2007) “The Impact of Homicide on Community Reassurance” The Journal of Homicide and Major Incident Investigation (3/1) pp.67-84.

Innes, M. and A. Clarke (2009) ‘Policing the Past: Cold Case Studies, Forensic Evidence and Retroactive Social Control’, Britsih Journal of Sociology, 60/3: 544-563.

Innes, M. L. Abbott, T. Lowe and C. Roberts (2008) Seeing like a citizen: field experiments in community intelligence-led policing. Police Practice and Research Innes, M. and D. Thiel (2008) ‘Policing Terror’, in T. Newburn (ed.) The Handbook of Policing (2nd edn.). Cullompton: Willan.

Innes, M. and C. Roberts (2008) Reassurance policing, community intelligence and the co -production of neighbourhood order in T. Williamson (ed.) The Handbook of Knowledge – Based Policing. Chichester: Wiley.

Innes, M. (2007) ‘Investigation order and major crime inquiries’, in T. Newburn, T. Williamson and A. Wright (eds.) Handbook of Criminal Investigation. Cullompton: Willan.

Innes, M. (2007) The reassurance function, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (1/2) pp. 132-41.