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Crime and Policing: Past and Present

19th May 2010, West Park Conference Centre, Dundee

A Knowledge Exchange Workshop co-sponsored by The Scottish Institute for Policing Research and the Department of History, University of Dundee

The conference was the first in a series of events to be co-sponsored by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research and the department of History at the University of Dundee. The series is intended to provide a unique forum for historians and other academics to engage with crime and policing professionals, with the aim of sharing and enhancing mutual knowledge and research agendas. It is particularly intended to provide an opportunity for contemporary crime and policing issues to be considered from a historical perspective.

Programme and Outputs

Professor Nicholas Fyfe (Director, SIPR) & Dr Murray Frame (Programme Convenor, History department, University of Dundee) Welcome and Opening Comments
Podcast - 6 Minutes [3 Mb]

WOMEN IN POLICING Chair: Professor Nicholas Fyfe

Dr Louise Jackson (School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh) Women in policing: historical perspectives
Podcast - 32 Minutes [14.8 Mb]
ACC Angela Wilson (Tayside Police) From my perspective
Podcast - 39 Minutes [17.9 Mb]
Q & A Session
Podcast - 24 Minutes [11.3 Mb]

CROWDS, PUBLIC ORDER AND POLICING Chair: Professor Peter Wilson

Professor Chris Whatley (Vice Principal and Head of the College of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Dundee) The Crowd and the Authorities in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Podcast - 37 Minutes [16.8 Mb]
Professor Stephen Reicher (School of Psychology, University of St Andrews)
Podcast - 33 Minutes [14.9 Mb]
Q & A Session
Podcast - 24 Minutes [11.0 Mb]

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & POLICE INTERVENTION Chair: Dr Murray Frame

Dr Annmarie Hughes (Department of Economic & Social History, University of Glasgow) An Ambiguous Relationship?: Policing, Prosecuting and Censuring wife-beating in Scotland, c1870-1939
PowerPoint [1.3 Mb]
Podcast - 34 Minutes [15.4 Mb]
Dr Wendy Morgan (London Metropolitan University) Domestic violence - theories and implications
PowerPoint [2.3 Mb]
Podcast - 37 Minutes [16.7 Mb]
Q & A Session
Podcast - 24 Minutes [11.0 Mb]

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Chair: Dr Anja Johansen

Professor Clive Emsley (Emeritus Professor, Department of History, Open University, Milton Keynes; former Director of the European Centre for the Study of Policing) Was the British police officer ever different?
PowerPoint [5.6 Mb]
Podcast - 58 Minutes [26.8 Mb]
Q & A Session
Podcast - 21 Minutes [9.8]

The workshop on Crime and Policing: Past and Present was co-organised by Professor Nicholas Fyfe (SIPR), Dr Murray Frame & Dr Anja Johansen (History) and was administered by Tim Heilbronn from the Scottish Institute for Policing Research. For more details contact: t.d.heilbronn@dundee.ac.uk