LEPH2023 Umea Sweden
May 21-24
Why Rights-Based Policing Responses to Pandemics are Good for the Police and
Good for Policing
Prof. Karl A Roberts, Dr Brendan J Cox, Dr Auke van Dijk and Dr Brandon del Pozo
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The Law Enforcement & HIV Network expands to over 20 Country Focal Points worldwide
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Law enforcement & public health: an overview
By Maurice Punch 2019
News
7 Feb. 2018, 4:43 pm
The conference is hosted this year by Birmingham City University. The conference is split into two sections, with a postgraduate conference taking place between July 3-4, before the main conference runs July 4-6.
New report - From Crime Fighting to Public Protection: The Shaping of Police Officers’ Sense of Role
19 Jan. 2018, 4:03 pm
Dr Sarah Charman, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, has published a paper in the Perspectives on Policing series which shows 'police officers’ perceptions of what they consider to be their role has altered, affected…
19 Jan. 2018, 3:47 pm
The World Society of Victimology is holding the 16th International Symposium on Victimology in Hong Kong 10-14 June, 2018.
To read more about the forthcoming symposium please click on the link or copy and paste it on your browser:…
17 Jan. 2018, 1:51 pm
This simulated study concluded that combined investment in a public health, community-based approach to violence prevention and a criminal justice approach focused on deterrence can achieve more to reduce population-level rates of urban violence than…
15 Jan. 2018, 9:05 pm
(From The Guardian) Program participant praised Senior Constable Williams. “The only person I will listen to is Caz,” he says. “I know that she will help and support me. I don’t trust anyone else. She has been able to explain so many things to me and…
9 Jan. 2018, 2:14 pm
Great visual by Inspector Jack Rowlands, Brixton Police Custody, with his thoughts on using a public health approach to reducing violence. Read more.
8 Jan. 2018, 6:55 pm
Professor Nick Crofts and Professor Stuart Thomas have published a new article in the Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being about 'Law enforcement and public health: finding common ground and global solutions to disparities in health and access…
12 Dec. 2017, 1:43 pm
On 23 November, the Institute launched the Law Enforcement & Public Health (LEPH) Issues Paper & Tasmania Wide Consultation at the University of Tasmania.
The event was officially opened by the Director of TILES Roberta Julian and invited guest…
8 Dec. 2017, 10:19 pm
"Every day and every night, police officers do things that most of us go out of our way to avoid. They do this professionally, conscientiously, compassionately and without complaint, and they deserve our grateful thanks."
24 Nov. 2017, 10:05 pm
Although public safety agencies protect our well-being, they also shape social problems and community inequities.
Public safety protections promote what T.H. Marshall called "social rights" of equitable citizenship. Frontlines of Welfare State shows…