Dr Alistair Henry

Alistair is interested in policing, partnership working and community engagement, governance and accountability of police and public sector agencies, and the development of collaborative academic-practitioner research agendas.

A lot of his work draws from social learning theories. He is currently using interaction ritual theory to explore ‘encounters’ with policing. He also has interests in visual and literary representations of crime and justice.

Henry, A. (2021), ‘Interaction rituals and “police” encounters: new challenges for interactionist police sociology’, Policing and Society, 31(9): 1066-1080. http://doi.10.1080/10439463.2020.1791861

Henry, A. (2021), ‘Reflections on knowledge exchange and democratic under-labouring: Encounters, brokering, and the collective impact of engagement’, in T. Daems and S. Pleysier (eds.), Criminology and Democratic Politics. Routledge.

Henry, A., Malik, A. and Aydin-Aitchison, A. (2019), ‘Local governance in the new Police Scotland: Renegotiating power, recognition and responsiveness’, European Journal of Criminology, 16(5): 573-591. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477370819856528