Dr Ben Bradford
Position : Professor in Policing
Organization : University College London
Country : United Kingdom
Short Biography
Ben's research interests include public trust, police legitimacy, cooperation and compliance in justice settings, and social identity as a factor in all these processes. He has also published on organisational justice within police agencies, ethnic and other disparities in policing, and elements of public-facing police work such as neighbourhood patrol, community engagement and stop and search. Ben has collaborated with organisations including the Metropolitan Police Service, the London Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, the College of Policing, Police Scotland, and West Midlands Police on a wide variety of projects.
His book, Stop and Search and Police Legitimacy, was published by Routledge in 2017. He is also co-author, with Kevin Morrell, of Policing and Public Management (Routledge 2018), co-editor, with Beatrice Jauregui, Ian Loader and Jonny Steinberg, of the SAGE Handbook of Global Policing (2016), and co-editor, with Clifford Stott, Matt Rayburn and Leanne Saviour-Shaw, of Making an Impact on Policing and Crime: Psychological Research, Policy, and Practice (2020).
Contact Address
Royal Police Cadet Academy, 90 Sam Pran, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand 73110
Expertise / Area of Interest
Crime Science / Criminology, Criminal Justice / Law Enforcement, Procedural Justice/ Trust and Legitimacy
Relevant Experience :
Related Work :
Ben is a Co-Investigator on the ESRC funded Vulnerabilities and Police Futures Research Centre (https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk), where he is leading research on public attitudes towards policing priorities and future agendas.
He is also a Co-Investigator on a second ESRC funded project, INTERACT (Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response and Contact Technologies in Policing: https://www.sipr.ac.uk/interact/), a major research project considering the impact and implications of technologically mediated police-public interaction.
Other current or recently completed projects include a College of Policing funded project exploring the reasons for ethnic disproportionalities in police use of Taser (https://www.keele.ac.uk/kpac/fundedprojects/taserd/), the ESRC funded project 'Place, crime and insecurity in everyday life: A contemporary study of an English town' (https://securityinplace.org), and the Nuffield Council funded project 'The court reform programme and the response to the pandemic'.
Academic Publications
- Bradford, B. (2014). Policing and social identity: Procedural justice, inclusion and cooperation between police and public. Policing and society, 24(1), 22-43.
- Laufs, J., Borrion, H., & Bradford, B. (2020). Security and the smart city: A systematic review. Sustainable cities and society, 55, 102023.
- Bradford, B., Quinton, P., Myhill, A., & Porter, G. (2014). Why do ‘the law’comply? Procedural justice, group identification and officer motivation in police organizations. European journal of criminology, 11(1), 110-131.
- Bradford, B., Milani, J., & Jackson, J. (2017). Identity, legitimacy and “making sense” of police use of force. Policing: an international journal, 40(3), 614-627.
- Bradford, B., Yesberg, J. A., Jackson, J., & Dawson, P. (2020). Live facial recognition: Trust and legitimacy as predictors of public support for police use of new technology. The British Journal of Criminology, 60(6), 1502-1522.
Type of Collaboration
Joint Research & Knowledge Management, Law Enforcement Capacity Building
