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Keywords

Community Safety, Criminology, Policing, Organised crime, Crime investigation, Offender profiling, Child abuse and neglect, Sexual offences

Affiliations

Child Welfare Research Unit CWRU

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Current Postgraduate Research Students

Stuart Kirby supervises 2 postgraduate research students. Some of the students have produced research profiles, these are listed below:

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Dr Stuart Kirby C.Psychol., AFBPsS.

Lecturer

Law School

Bowland North

Lancaster University

Bailrigg

Lancaster LA1 4YN

United Kingdom

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Tel: +44 1524 594124

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Research overview

I joined the University after completing 30 years as a police officer, retiring at the rank of Detective Chief Superintendent. My research interests are in the area of Policing; Organised crime; Crime reduction and investigation.

Current Teaching

ASSC102 Crime and Social Life

ASSC 235 Criminal Investigation

ASSC 205 Criminological Thought

ASSC 380 Research based dissertation

ASSC 339 The police and policing

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Publications & Outputs

Published
Effective policing?: implementation in theory and practice
Kirby, S. 9/10/2013 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 224 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
Published
Understanding criminal careers in organised crime
Francis, B., Humphreys, L., Kirby, S. & Soothill, K. 7/10/2013 London: Home Office. 120 p. (Crime research and analysis; 74).
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Commissioned report
Published
Exploring the VLI, for identifying priority neighbourhoods, in the context of multi-agency community safety initiatives.
Reece -Smith, R. & Kirby, S. 03/2013 In : Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. 7, 1, p. 42-52 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article