All our research publications are independently peer-reviewed to help ensure that government standards are met.
We have organised our research publications according to the categories below. These categories have been developed to reflect diverse police roles but are also relevant to practitioners, academic partners and agencies across the crime prevention and wider law enforcement sector.
Systematic reviews sum up the best available research on a subject and can provide evidence of "what works". These exhaustive reviews use explicit criteria to find, assess and draw together findings from relevant studies, sometimes combining them into a single, much larger study.
Rapid evidence assessments (REAs) follow a similar approach but are less exhaustive, so that the literature can be summarised and made available more quickly.
Please select a category from the list below to see published research from the College of Policing.