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Alistair Henry is a Senior Lecturer at Edinburgh Law School with extensive experience in criminology. He served as Associate Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research from 2010 to 2018 and currently coordinates the Edinburgh/SIPR Brokering Group. His primary research interests revolve around sociology of policing, local policing, and community engagement, focusing on governance and accountability within police-public sector agencies. He is notably interested in interaction ritual theory, social learning theories, and the visual literary representations of crime and justice. Alistair’s work is characterized by an emphasis on collaborative academic-practitioner research agendas, with particular attention to the impact of local governance on crime, accountability mechanisms in policing, and the effects of police reform amidst austerity measures. He encourages PhD candidates to explore research opportunities under his guidance, especially in areas related to community policing and partnership working.
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