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Major award win for agenda-setting SCCJR researcher Kath Murray

23rd June 2016

Kath Murray, right, with Natalie Aguilera of award sponsor SAGE Publishing The SCCJR’s Dr Kath Murray has been awarded a prestigious Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) prize for her hugely influential work on police stop-and-search practices. She was presented with the £10,000 award for Outstanding Early Career Impact at a ceremony in London last night. The judging panel...

Award nod for Dr Kath Murray recognises huge impact of stop-and-search work

11th May 2016

The SCCJR’s Dr Kath Murray has been shortlisted for a prestigious Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) prize for her agenda-setting work on police stop-and-search practices. The Economic and Social Research Council’s Celebrating Impact Prize recognises and rewards researchers whose work has made a real difference to society or the economy. Kath’s PhD research on stop...

Dr Kath Murray

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83% of British Transport Police Unsupportive of Merger with Police Scotland

21st February 2018

New research has found the majority (83%) of British Transport Police officers and staff in Scotland are either quite or very unsupportive of plans to integrate their division into Police Scotland. The findings come from the British Transport Police Leaving Home project which investigates the impact of integration on BTP D Division officers and...

PhD studentship opportunity: Stop and Search in Scotland

7th April 2016

Applications are open for an ESRC collaborative PhD studentship titled ‘Stop and Search in Scotland: An analysis of police practice and culture in a time of change’. The studentship is being offered by the University of Dundee in partnership with Police Scotland, and will focus on an area that has received widespread attention in recent years thanks to the work of SCCJR researcher Kath...

Scottish stop and search rate falls but stays top in UK, study shows

22nd June 2015

Police stop and search figures are dropping in Scotland but the practice remains far more common than it is south of the border, research by the SCCJR shows. Numbers have fallen by 38 per cent since the formation of Police Scotland in April 2013, the research by Dr Kath Murray of Edinburgh University found, but the latest figures show that people in Scotland are still four times more likely to...

SCCJR evaluation finds Whole System Approach to youth justice boosts partnership working

17th June 2015

A co-ordinated approach to diverting young offenders away from the criminal justice system has been found to boost partnership working amid a reduction in referrals to the children’s hearing system. Researchers from the SCCJR – Professor Michele Burman, Professor Susan McVie, Dr Paul McGuiness and Dr Kath Murray – evaluated the impact of the Scottish Government’s Whole System...

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SASO Debate: Stop and Search

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SCCJR Publish ‘Stop and search in Scotland: An evaluation of police practice.’

17th January 2014

This report sets out selected findings from a doctoral project on the use of stop and search in Scotland. The report sets out a body of evidence on the use of stop and search between 2005 and 2010. The aims are to provide relevant data which may be used to inform public and policy debate, to identify issues and concerns which policing stakeholders may wish to engage with, and to set out a series...

Stop and search in Scotland: An evaluation of police practice

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Murray, K. (2014), 'Stop and search in Scotland: An evaluation of police practice.' SCCJR Report 01/2014.

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