Jason Roach — University of Huddersfield Research Portal

Personal profile

Biography

Director for the Applied Criminology and Policing Centre
Editor of The Police Journal https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/journal/police-journal
Reader in Crime and Policing, Division of Criminology, Politics and Sociology, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, August 2012 - present.
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Division of Criminology, Politics and Sociology, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, August 2005 - July 2012.
Police Lecturer/Trainer, Home Office Crime Reduction College, Easingwold, North Yorkshire April 2003- August 2005.
Crime Analyst, Home Office Crime Reduction Team, Government Office North-West, Manchester, December 2001- April 2003.
Associate Lecturer (Psychology), Open University, September 2002- July 2005 (part-time).
Research Assistant (and Lecturer in Psychology) in Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester. October 2000-December 2001.

Research Expertise and Interests

Criminal investigative practice (including the emotional and cognitive effect on SIO’s)
Evidence-Based Policing
Violent crime, violent offenders, and terrorism
Self-Selection Policing
Using ‘nudge’ psychology to reduce crime
Evolutionary psychology and understanding crime and criminal behaviour

Research Degree Supervision

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Keywords

Criminal Investigative Practice (Homicide)
Violent Crime
Violent Offenders
Self-Selection Policing
Evolution and Crime

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Research Output 2005 2019

19 Article
5 Chapter
4 Book
1 Foreword/postscript
1 More
- 1 Editorial

Decision Making in Police Enquiries and Critical Incidents. What Really Works?

Roycroft, M. (ed.) & Roach, J. (ed.), 4 Feb 2019, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. 186 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Police

Decision Making

incident

police

decision making

Cognitive and Emotional Stressors of Child Homicide Investigations on U.K. and Danish Police Investigators

Roach, J., Sharratt, K., Cartwright, A. & Skou Roer, T., 1 Aug 2018, In : Homicide Studies. 22, 3, p. 296-320 25 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Homicide

Police

homicide

police

Research Personnel

Mission impossible? Assessing the veracity of a mental health problem as result of a road traffic accident: a preliminary review of UK experts’ practices

Cartwright, A., Roach, J. & Armitage, R., 9 Aug 2018, In : Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Traffic Accidents

Mental Health

Process Assessment (Health Care)

Malingering

Fraud

Those who do big bad things still do little bad things: re-stating the case for self-selection policing

Roach, J., 27 Nov 2018, Routledge Handbook of Crime Science. Wortley, R., Sidebottom, A., Tilley, N. & Laycock, G. (eds.). 1 ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 320-333 14 p. (Routledge International Handbooks).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Police

Crime

Research

1 Citations