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Clifford Stott is affiliated with Keele University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, and health-related fields. Their research portfolio includes 63 publications primarily in social sciences, of which 36 are concentrated in sociology and political science, 18 in political science and international relations, and 7 in health. Additional contributions are in cognitive neuroscience and modeling and simulation.

The research topics covered by Stott include policing practices and perceptions, crime patterns and interventions, and criminal justice and corrections analysis. Other topics are psychology of moral and emotional judgment, disaster management and resilience, crime, deviance, and social control, as well as vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Stott's recent published papers include the following:

  • "A Turning Point, Securitization, and Policing in the Context of Covid-19: Building a New Social Contract Between State and Nation?" (2020, Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice)
  • "Patterns of 'Disorder' During the 2019 Protests in Hong Kong: Policing, Social Identity, Intergroup Dynamics, and Radicalization" (2020, Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice)

Other influential works related to related fields authored by close collaborators or coauthors include:

  • "On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020, British Journal of Social Psychology)
  • "Policing the COVID-19 pandemic: police officer well-being and commitment to democratic modes of policing" (2021, Policing & Society)
  • "COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology" (2020, British Journal of Social Psychology)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Stott include:

  • Matthew Radburn
  • Arabella Kyprianides
  • John Drury
  • Stephen Reicher
  • Ben Bradford

Common venues for Stott's publications are:

  • Policing A Journal of Policy and Practice
  • Policing & Society
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Best Publications

  • Crowd action as intergroup process: introducing the police perspective

    Clifford Stott;Stephen Reicher

  • "Hooligans' abroad? Inter-group dynamics, social identity and participation in collective "disorder' at the 1998 World Cup Finals.

    Clifford Stott;Paul Hutchison;John Drury

  • Crowds, context and identity: Dynamic categorization processes in the 'poll tax riot'

    Clifford Stott;John Drury

  • An integrated approach to crowd psychology and public order policing

    Stephen Reicher;Clifford Stott;Patrick Cronin;Otto Adang

  • How Conflict Escalates: The Inter-Group Dynamics of Collective Football Crowd `Violence':

    Clifford Stott;Steve Reicher

  • Knowledge-based public order policing: Principles and practice

    Stephen Reicher;Clifford Stott;John Drury;Otto M. J. Adang

  • Football ''Hooliganism'', Policing and the War on the ''English Disease''

    Clifford John T Stott;Geoff Pearson

  • TACKLING FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM A Quantitative Study of Public Order, Policing and Crowd Psychology

    Clifford Stott;Otto Adang;Andrew Livingstone;Martina Schreiber

  • Variability in the collective behaviour of England fans at Euro2004: 'Hooliganism', public order policing and social change

    Clifford Stott;Otto M. J. Adang;Andrew Livingstone;Merritt Schreiber

  • Transforming the boundaries of collective identity: From the 'local' anti-road campaign to 'global' resistance?

    John Drury;Steve Reicher;Clifford Stott

  • Keeping the Peace: Social identity, procedural justice and the policing of football crowds

    Clifford Stott;James Hoggett;Geoff Pearson

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

    Matthew Radburn;Clifford Stott;Ben Bradford;Mark Robinson

  • The messaging threshold in computer-mediated communication

    Fraser J. M. Reid;Vlastimil Malinek;Clifford J. T. Stott;Jonathan St. B. T. Evans

  • Crowdedness mediates the effect of social identification on positive emotion in a crowd : a survey of two crowd events

    David Novelli;John Drury;Stephen Reicher;Clifford Stott

  • On order and disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Stephen David Reicher;Clifford Stott

  • Contextualising the crowd in contemporary social science

    John Drury;Clifford Stott

  • Bias as a Research Strategy in Participant Observation: The Case of Intergroup Conflict

    John Drury;Clifford Stott

  • Psychological disaster myths in the perception and management of mass emergencies

    John Drury;David Novelli;Clifford Stott

  • Representing crowd behaviour in emergency planning guidance: ‘mass panic’ or collective resilience?

    John Drury;David Novelli;Clifford Stott

  • The social psychological processes of ‘procedural justice’: Concepts, critiques and opportunities:

    Matthew Radburn;Clifford Stott

  • The importance of social structure and social interaction in stereotype consensus and content: is the whole greater than the sum of its parts?

    Clifford Stott;John Drury

Frequent Co-Authors

John Drury
John Drury University of Sussex
Stephen Reicher
Stephen Reicher University of St Andrews
Ben Bradford
Ben Bradford University College London
Theresa M. Marteau
Theresa M. Marteau University of Cambridge
Lucy Yardley
Lucy Yardley University of Bristol
G. James Rubin
G. James Rubin King's College London
Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison University of Oxford
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Daniel C. Richardson
Daniel C. Richardson University College London
Richard Amlôt
Richard Amlôt Public Health England

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