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Where did it all go wrong? Implementation failure - and more - in a field experiment of procedural justice policing
Objectives: This paper presents the findings from a retrospectively conducted qualitative
process evaluation to the Scottish Community Engagement Trial (ScotCET). The study explores
the unanticipated results of a randomised field trial testing the effect of âprocedurally justâ
modes of road policing on public perceptions of police. The ScotCET intervention failed to
produce the hypothesised results, producing instead significant, and unexplained, negative
effects on key aspects of public perception. The present study seeks to examine, from the
perspectives of officers implementing the experiment, what the impacts (intended or
otherwise) of participation were.
Methods: Group interviews were held within the ScotCET experiment âunitsâ to explore how
officers had collectively interpreted and framed ScotCET, and responded as a group to its
requirements/ demands. Nine groups were held over a 5 month period post experiment
completion.
Results: Findings indicate that communication breakdowns during the ScotCET implementation
led to misunderstandings of its aims and objectives, and of the requirements placed on officers.
Within a context of organisational reform and perceived organizational âinjusticeâ, commonly
cited aspects of police culture were invoked to facilitate officer non-compliance with aspects of
the experimental intervention, leading to implementation failures, and, possibly, a diffuse
negative effect on the attitudes and behaviours of experiment officers.
Conclusions: Organizational structures and processes, and coercive top-down direction, are
insufficient to ensure successful implementation of policing research, and, by implication,
policing reforms, particularly those that demand alternative ways of âdoingâ policing and âseeingâ
citizens. Greater investment in organisational justice and encouraging openness to evidence-led
knowledge is needed to promote change
Feeling at home in an experiential research group: reflections on the research process in collaborative pluralism
No policies and no politics: Israeli teachers, asylum seeker pupils, and remobilized strategies of avoidance and depoliticization
Barriers and facilitators of effective health education targeting people with mental illness: a theory-based ethnographic study
Gendered Sexual Uses of Alcohol and Associated Risks: A Qualitative Study of Nigerian University Students
Background: Alcohol misuse among young people is a global phenomenon. In many countries, young people
engage in heavy drinking and this exacerbates risky sexual behaviour. In Nigeria, alcohol held multiple roles in the traditional era but was mainly consumed by adult males for pleasure. Adult females and young people were culturally constrained from drinking in most communities. In contemporary Nigeria, young peopleâs drinking is increasing, and many engage in sexual intercourse under the influence of alcohol. Methods: This study draws on the traditional gender and social sexual scripts to explore the factors that motivate young people to use alcohol for sexual purposes. In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 to 23-year old male and female undergraduate students from a Nigerian university. Thematic analysis was conducted with the aid of NVivo 10 software. Results: Men drink to become confident to initiate sexual relationships, stimulate sexual urges, prolong erection, increase sexual satisfaction and become more aggressive during sexual intercourse. Women also drink to be bold in initiating sexual relationships, for sexual arousal and to increase satisfaction. Relatedly, not every brand of alcohol is used for sexual purposes. For example, while men use âherbalâ alcoholic beverages and a mixture of locally-produced gin and marijuana, women use champagne and other flavoured alcoholic beverages. The results also revealed that young people use alcohol or salt in a bid to prevent conception after sexual intercourse. Conclusions: Adherence to the traditional gender (masculinity) and social sexual scripts amongst men and the enactment of what appears to be a new form of femininity script amongst women contribute to a culturally specific understanding of the motivations to use alcohol for sexual purposes. Evidence-based strategies should be employed to distribute information about the consequences of sexual intercourse under the influence of alcohol