Policing with Procedural Justice (On-line)

This 16-week course comprises the following modules:

  • An introduction to the key concepts and ideas in Evidence-Based Policing, Procedural Justice, Legitimacy and Confidence in Policing.
  • A deeper dive into the underpinning theory behind Legitimacy, Self-Legitimacy and Procedural Justice.
  • Case studies in delivering and testing Procedural Justice, Legitimacy and Confidence in Policing.
  • A tutorial to discuss the case studies, the theory and the challenges of implementation.
  • Operationalising Procedural Justice, measuring it and planning Procedural Justice Initiatives. 
  • Critiquing three videos of law enforcement encounters with citizens against the four pillars of Procedural Justice (Citizen Voice, Neutrality, Dignity and Respect and Trustworthy Motives).
  • A tutorial to discuss the videos and how to operationalise Procedural Justice in your jurisdiction.

  

YOUR INSTRUCTORS

Professor Lawrence Sherman

Professor Sherman was the Director of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing before he resigned to take up a new role as the Chief Scientific Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service on 1/10/2022.  He has recorded many of the videos but he no longer plays a "live" role in the course. He is the Wolfson Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. Professor Sherman is affiliated with the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he was also the Director of the Police Executive Programme and  Director of the Jerry Lee Centre for Experimental Criminology.

Dr. Heather Strang

Dr. Strang is the Director of Studies of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing. She is also the Director of the Jerry Lee Centre of Experimental Criminology, University of Cambridge, Institute of Criminology. In 2019 she was elected to a two-year term as President of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.

Dr Eleanor Neyroud

Eleanor Neyroud studied for her PhD at the University of Cambridge. The focus of her PhD was the overlap between victimisation and offending in low level offenders. As well as working with the Centre for Evidence-Based Policing and on the Cambridge Crime Harm Index, Eleanor is currently working as a data analyst with the Metropolitan Police on a randomised controlled trial, testing out-of-court disposals. Prior to beginning her PhD, Eleanor completed an MPhil at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge in Criminology, gaining a distinction for her thesis on the victim-offender overlap and worked on the Turning Point Project. Eleanor has also interned at RAND Europe, working on analysing mental health diversion data.

Dr. Justice Tankebe

Dr. Tankebe is a University Lecturer in Criminology and Director of the Ph.D. Programme at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

Professor Jerry Ratcliffe

Jerry Ratcliffe is a former British police officer, college professor, and host of the Reducing Crime podcast. He works with police agencies around the world on crime reduction and criminal intelligence strategy. After an ice-climbing accident ended a decade-long career with London’s Metropolitan Police, he earned a first class honors degree and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. He has published over 90 research articles and nine books, including most recently “Reducing Crime: A Companion for Police Leaders.” Ratcliffe has been a research adviser to the FBI and the Philadelphia Police Commissioner, an instructor for the ATF intelligence academy, and he is a member of the FBI Law Enforcement Education and Training Council. He is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA.

Simon Rose

Simon Rose retired as a Det Chief Superintendent in the Metroplotan Police Service (MPS) in Feb 2022. His last three posts were the OCU Commader for Met Intelligence, Temporary Commander Crime for the MPS and the BCU Commander for North West London leading an operational team af 1,500 officers and staff. He is a graduate of the Cambridge MSt program, holds an MBA from Warwick Business School and currently completing a Ph.D. at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.  This PhD examines at the use of algorythnmic tools to predict solvability and therby support the efficient screening of volume crime .
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