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Thomas Cockcroft

Professor

Police Culture, Police Knowledge, Police Education, Police Professionalisation, Police Leadership

Tom began his post-doctoral career at the University of Kent working on the evaluation of Code F of PACE and, subsequently, on Project Enhance. He then moved to Canterbury Christ Church University where he developed the MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice and led the Department of Law and Criminal Justice Studies' development of a post graduate research programme and oversaw the introduction and support of its first PhD students. Simultaneously, he acted as Deputy Director of Criminal Justice Practice within the Department which saw Tom and Professor Robin Bryant working upon a range of knowledge transfer and research projects with a host of international policing agencies such as Europol and the Bundeskriminalamt.. In 2014 Tom moved to Leeds Beckett University where he undertook a more...

PGCLT (HE) (2007), Canterbury Christ Church University. PhD (2001), An Investigation into the Culture of the London Metropolitan Police between the 1930s and the 1960s, Brunel University (External Examiner, Professor Robert Reiner, London School of Economics). MSc. (Econ.) (1995), Pass, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Cardiff University. BSc. (Hons) 2:i (1993), Behavioural Sciences, University of Huddersfield.

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  1. Cockcroft, Tom orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7249-7285 and Hallenberg, Katja (2021) Unpacking the Blue Box: structure, control and education in policing. Policing and Society, 32 (9). pp. 1146-1165. ISSN 1043-9463
  2. Hallenberg, Katja M. and Cockcroft, Tom orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-7249-7285 (2017) From Indifference to Hostility: Police Officers, Organizational Responses and the Symbolic Value of ‘in-Service’ Higher Education in Policing. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 11 (3). pp. 273-288. ISSN 1752-4512

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