Contemporary Topics in Criminology

Laura Huey is Professor of Sociology at Western University, London, Canada; Editor of Police Practice and Research; a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC); and a member of the Canadian Council of Academies’ expert panels on Cybercrime and Policing.Lorna Ferguson is Assistant Professor at the University of Regina, Canada, and is Founder of the Missing Persons Research Hub. Lorna has a broad interest in policing research, including issues related to search and rescue, incident command, technologies, crime concentration, and cybercrime. Her specialization is police responses to missing persons.

• Introduction 1. ‘Speculation was a waste of time: he must wait until there was more evidence’: the importance of an evidence base for criminal justice and criminal justice policy 2. Academic freedom, manufactured evidence, and the integrity of criminal justice policy 3. The foundational deficits of correctional rehabilitation 4. Beyond ‘what works’: why systematisation matters and what more it can do for the criminal justice evidence base 5. Beyond data ceilings: rethinking how we understand missing persons 6. Research on public trust and police legitimacy: where next, and why? 7. A shortage of ‘copaganda fascists’ and the need for more police pracademics 8. Here Be Dragons: burdens of knowledge and innovation in evidence-based policing 9. From rigor to relevance. Building an evidence culture for criminal justice and urban security policies in Southern Europe