Introduction Denise Martin and Stephen Tong 1. The Practicalities of Police Research Denise Martin 2. Policing and Academic Partnerships John Coxhead 3. Outside Insiders: Police Officers Who Research Gareth Stubbs 4. Police and the Use of Evidence-Based Practice Cody W. Telep Part 2: Inside Policing 5. Researching Detective Pathways: Opportunities and Challenges Martin O'Neill and Stephen Tong 6. Researching Police Professionalisation in Scotland, Sweden and Finland Larissa Engleman and Andrew Tatnell 7. Researching Challenging Issues: The Case of Policing Diversity Karen Bullock, Jon Garland and Michael Rowe 8. Researching Power and the Powerful: Reflections from Police Leadership Research Claire Davis 9. Researching Police Custody: Past, Present and Future Layla Skinns, Rebecca Banwell-Moore, Lindsey Rice and Andrew Wooff Part 3: Researching Police in Transition 10. Research and the Police in South Africa: The Case of a Violent, Unequal, Post-Authoritarian Democracy Andrew Faull 11. Positionality and its Implications for Researching the Police in Vietnam Melissa Jardine and Hai Thanh Luong 12. Policing in Northern Ireland: Research, Meaning and Lessons from a Contested Landscape John Topping and Richard Martin 13. Researching Police Reform: Experiences from Scotland and the Netherlands Nicholas R. Fyfe and Jan Terpstra Part 4: The Challenges of Police Research 14. Extending the Scope of Multidisciplinary Research on Undercover Policing Paul McFarlane 15. Cautionary Tales and Useful Instruments: Researching Vulnerability in Policing Nicole L. Asquith and Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron 16. From Ethnography to Virtual Reality: Researching Police-Public Interactions Ben Bradford 17. ‘You’ll Find No Smoking Gun’: Challenging the Police Narrative in the Aftermath of the Hillsborough Disaster Phil Scraton 18. Researching Visible Policing Liam Ralph, Michael Rowe, Andrew Millie and Matthew Jones 19. Researching Project Vigilant, a Police Response to Violence Against Women in the Night Time Economy: Reclaiming the Night? Chris Magill and Peter Squires 20. Whose Side Were We On? Positionality and Identities in Researching the Plural Policing of Scottish Football Colin Atkinson and William Graham 21. Conclusions and the Future Direction of Police Research Denise Martin and Stephen Tong
