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Overview

Ben Bradford is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated in the field of Social Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and Law. Additional research interests extend to General Health Professions and Health.

Their work explores multiple topics related to policing, crime, and social issues. Key topics include:

  • Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies

Bradford has contributed scholarly articles to various publication venues. The most frequent journals of publication are:

  • Policing & Society
  • CrimRxiv
  • Journal of Experimental Criminology
  • The British Journal of Criminology
  • International Journal of Police Science & Management

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Bradford are:

  • "Live Facial Recognition: Trust and Legitimacy as Predictors of Public Support for Police Use of New Technology" (2020, The British Journal of Criminology)
  • "Security and the smart city: A systematic review" (2020, Sustainable Cities and Society)
  • "'Truly free consent'? Clarifying the nature of police legitimacy using causal mediation analysis" (2020, Journal of Experimental Criminology)
  • "Are Trustworthiness and Legitimacy 'Hard to Win, Easy to Lose'? A Longitudinal Test of the Asymmetry Thesis of Police-Citizen Contact" (2020, Journal of Quantitative Criminology)
  • "Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing" (2021, Policing & Society)

Bradford has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Jonathan Jackson
  • Arabella Kyprianides
  • Naomi Creutzfeldt
  • Julia A. Yesberg
  • Krisztián Pósch

The researcher has also contributed to book publications primarily with Bristol University Press eBooks and Policy Press. These books focus on themes such as access to justice, digitalization, and vulnerability, published in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Why do People Comply with the Law? Legitimacy and the Influence of Legal Institutions

    Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Mike Hough;Andy Myhill

  • Procedural Justice, Trust, and Institutional Legitimacy

    Mike Hough;Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Andy Myhill

  • Contact and confidence: revisiting the impact of public encounters with the police

    Ben Bradford;Jonathan Jackson;Elizabeth A. Stanko

  • Policing and social identity: procedural justice, inclusion and cooperation between police and public

    Ben Bradford

  • Just Authority?: Trust in the Police in England and Wales

    Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Betsy Stanko;Katrin Hohl

  • Crime, policing and social order: on the expressive nature of public confidence in policing.

    Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford

  • Officers as Mirrors Policing, Procedural Justice and the (Re)Production of Social Identity

    Ben Bradford;Kristina Murphy;Jonathan Jackson

  • Self-legitimacy, Police Culture and Support for Democratic Policing in an English Constabulary

    Ben Bradford;Paul Quinton

  • Security and the smart city: A systematic review

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  • What is Trust and Confidence in the Police

    Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford

  • Overcoming cop culture? Organizational justice and police officers’ attitudes toward the public

    Andy Myhill;Ben Bradford

  • Developing European indicators of trust in justice

    Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford;Mike Hough;Jouni Kuha

  • Monopolizing Force? Police Legitimacy and Public Attitudes Toward the Acceptability of Violence

    Jonathan Jackson;Aziz Z. Huq;Ben Bradford;Tom R. Tyler

  • Why do ‘the law’ comply? Procedural justice, group identification and officer motivation in police organizations

    Ben Bradford;Paul Quinton;Andy Myhill;Gillian Porter

  • What price fairness when security is at stake? Police legitimacy in South Africa

    Ben Bradford;Aziz Huq;Jonathan Jackson;Benjamin Roberts

  • Corruption and Police Legitimacy in Lahore, Pakistan

    Jonathan Jackson;Muhammad Asif;Ben Bradford;Muhammad Zakria Zakar

  • Enhancing public trust and police legitimacy during road traffic encounters: results from a randomised controlled trial in Scotland

    Sarah MacQueen;Ben Bradford

  • Obeying the Rules of the Road: Procedural Justice, Social Identity, and Normative Compliance

    Ben Bradford;Katrin Hohl;Jonathan Jackson;Sarah MacQueen

  • INFLUENCING TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN THE LONDON METROPOLITAN POLICE Results from an Experiment Testing the Effect of Leaflet Drops on Public Opinion

    Katrin Hohl;Katrin Hohl;Ben Bradford;Elizabeth A. Stanko

  • Can police enhance public confidence by improving quality of service? Results from two surveys in England and Wales

    Andy Myhill;Ben Bradford

  • Legitimacy, trust and compliance: an empirical test of procedural justice theory using the European Social Survey

    Mike Hough;Jonathan Jackson;Ben Bradford

  • Motivating Compliance Behavior Among Offenders Procedural Justice or Deterrence

    Kristina Murphy;Ben Bradford;Jonathan Jackson

  • When is policing fair? Groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing

    Matthew Radburn;Clifford Stott;Ben Bradford;Mark Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom R. Tyler
Tom R. Tyler Yale University
Clifford Stott
Clifford Stott Keele University
Ian Loader
Ian Loader University of Oxford
Stephen Farrall
Stephen Farrall University of Sheffield
Maria Hartwig
Maria Hartwig John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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