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Police engagement with football fans online during the English 2022/23 season (2024)
Journal Article
Ralph, L., Aitken, A., & Robinson, P. (in press). Police engagement with football fans online during the English 2022/23 season. Policing, 18, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae102

Dialogue policing favours constructive forms of police-fan engagement, and there is overwhelming evidence that it leads to greater trust and self-regulation behaviours amongst fans. However, little is known about if and how dialogue policing can be f... Read More about Police engagement with football fans online during the English 2022/23 season.

Frames as pre-signal context: using a semiotic framing approach to explain how prior experiences shape present interpretations of control signals (2024)
Journal Article

Innes’s “control signals” provides a semiotic perspective for explaining how acts of social control send “signals” about the effectiveness of security mechanisms. A cross-cutting theme infers that “culture and situation matter” in the reception of si... Read More about Frames as pre-signal context: using a semiotic framing approach to explain how prior experiences shape present interpretations of control signals.

Police use of Twitter during a sporting mega-event (2023)
Journal Article
Aitken, A., Ralph, L., & Robinson, P. (2023). Police use of Twitter during a sporting mega-event. Policing, 17, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paad016

There exists a range of sporting mega-event security case studies from respective Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, FIFA World Cup, and UEFA European Football Championships. This literature tends to focus on outlining the policing and physical secur... Read More about Police use of Twitter during a sporting mega-event.

Community perceptions of private security at a mega-event (2021)
Journal Article
Aitken, A. (2021). Community perceptions of private security at a mega-event. Security Journal, 37, 985-1005. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-021-00309-y

The pluralisation of policing has caused much debate in criminology. Yet very few studies examine how the public perceive private security. This article addresses this gap by drawing on empirical qualitative data from the 2014 Commonwealth Games in G... Read More about Community perceptions of private security at a mega-event.

Sporting mega-event security in hyperreality and its consequences for democratic security governance (2021)
Journal Article
Aitken, A. (2021). Sporting mega-event security in hyperreality and its consequences for democratic security governance. Democracy and Security, 17(3), 233-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/17419166.2021.1891529

Within the sporting mega-events literature three key developments exist: 1. Security is performative and symbolic; 2. Security reactivates state authority and legitimacy in developing security responses; 3. Security measures have discernible security... Read More about Sporting mega-event security in hyperreality and its consequences for democratic security governance.

Seeking invention: creating an informed citizenry in the governance of security at sporting mega-events (2020)
Journal Article
Aitken, A. (2020). Seeking invention: creating an informed citizenry in the governance of security at sporting mega-events. Policing and Society, 31(3), 354-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2020.1741586

There exists a small cottage industry of case studies of mega-sporting event security at respective Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games or FIFA World Cups. This literature provides detailed accounts of the different security governance networks and met... Read More about Seeking invention: creating an informed citizenry in the governance of security at sporting mega-events.