Why don't we just train the police to be better at cybercrime ? Dr Tom Cockcroft, Reader in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University and author of "Police Cybercrime Training: Perceptions, Pedagogy, and Policy" helps us to better understand the issues around training the police and how to approach this issue of up-skilling for cybercrime.
About Our Guest:
Dr Tom Cockcroft
https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-tom-cockcroft/
Papers mentioned in this Episode:
Cockcroft, T., Shan-A-Khuda, M., Schreuders, Z. C., & Trevorrow, P. (2021). Police cybercrime training: perceptions, pedagogy, and policy. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15(1), 15-33.
https://academic.oup.com/policing/article-abstract/15/1/15/5145767
Cockcroft T (2020) Police Occupational Culture: Research and Practice. Bristol: Policy Press.
Cockcroft T (2012) Police culture: themes and concepts. Abingdon: Routledge.
Notes:
The intro for this episode was from a 1951 film called "This is your Police Department" about the Detroit police department that romantically traces the training and career of a police officer in that city. Its available on the Prelinger archive.