You are invited to take part in our paid workshop and focus group study in the short future, with the aim to explore your self-investigation of the real environmental issue identified by your community. This is a 2-month study running from July/August 2021, and each participant will be compensated with £20-£60 high street vouchers. All workshop
Eyewitnesses to crimes sometimes search for a culprit on social media before viewing a police lineup, but it is not known whether this affects subsequent lineup identification accuracy. The present online study was conducted to address this. Two hundred and eighty-five participants viewed a mock crime video, and after a 15–20 min delay either (i)
We reviewed 240 different apps that help people and the police talk online. Most of these apps (82%) asked users to sign up or log in. Of the apps that let people report something, only 55% let you do so without giving your name. Only 10% of the apps had a privacy policy that was
Perceptions of police trustworthiness are linked to citizens’ willingness to cooperate with police. Trust can be fostered by introducing accountability mechanisms, or by increasing a shared police/citizen identity, both which can be achieved digitally. Digital mechanisms can also be designed to safeguard, engage, reassure, inform, and empower diverse communities. We systematically scoped 240 existing online
We want to hear about your experiences in your local area. If you are 18 or older and live in the UK or the Republic of Ireland, you can take part. Use this link if you live in the UK: https://openss.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1YXFyES8YZ5l3wx Or use this link if you live in the Republic of Ireland: https://openss.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3jBG1Xd9wwFyQcZ
Are you interested in eyewitness or websleuthing research? Please take part in our new online experiment, investigating the role of social media on eyewitness memory, by clicking this link: https://experiment.citizenforensics.org. The experiment is in two parts, and each part will take about 20 minutes. Thank you for helping us to know more about this important
The increasingly-adopted mobile devices create new opportunities for the police to engage with citizens at anywhere and anytime. However, there has been limited academic work evaluating these technologies. This paper reports an auto-ethnographic evaluation study of Android community policing (CP) applications (Apps) used in Asia. Without guidance, our study indicates that finding appropriate Asian CP
Pervasive digital technologies are increasingly used to record different aspects of citizens’ lives, fromactivity and location tracking, to social interactions and video recordings of life experiences. However, effective use of these technologies to strengthen collaborations between citizens and police requires afresh examination of the creation and use of evidence. We extend the concept of Citizen
Community policing faces a combination of new challenges and opportunities due to both citizens and policeadopting new digital technologies. However, there is limited scholarly work providing evidence for howtechnologies assist citizens’ interactions with the police. This paper reports preliminary findings frominterviews with 13 participants, both citizens and police officers, in England. We recognize four key
Many violence prevention programs include a focus on the role of bystanders and third parties in violence-prevention training. Central to this work has been the classic social psychological research on the“bystander effect”. However, recent research on bystander behaviour shows that the bystander effect does not hold in violent or dangerous emergencies. Meta‐analyses of the literature