About Dr Tom Cockcroft
Dr Tom Cockcroft is Reader in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University.
A leading authority on police culture, Tom's most recent work has seen him explore the challenges for police organisations of developing effective cybercrime training; the impact of police dispersal powers on young people; the challenges of applying transformational leadership models to police contexts; the experiences of police officers studying on Higher Education programmes; the relationship between police culture and the police professionalisation agenda and the impact of new knowledge paradigms in policing. In addition to this, he has recently worked on a major College of Policing/HEFCE funded piece of research, with West Yorkshire Police entitled 'An Evidence-Based Approach to Fighting Cyber Crime from the Frontline: Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Investigating Cyber Enabled Crime'. He has a track record of successful engagement and completion of contracts with a host of police and criminal justice organisations both in UK and international contexts (including West Yorkshire Police, Europol, the Home Office and the Bundeskriminalamt [the German Federal Police]). He is the author of Police Culture: Themes and Concepts (Routledge) and sits on the editorial boards of Cogent Social Sciences (Taylor and Francis), Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press) and Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice (Emerald).
Current Teaching
- Being A Criminologist
- Policing and Social Control
Research Interests
At present, Tom is conducting research into police interventions with street users (with Dr Katie Dhingra, Leeds Beckett University), developing publications on cultural resistance amongst police officers engaging with HE (with Dr Katja Hallenberg, Canterbury Christ Church University) and writing his second sole authored book, Police Culture: Theory and Practice (Policy Press).
Selected Publications
Journal articles (7)
- Cockcroft TW; Shan-A-Khuda M; Schreuders Z; Trevorrow P (2018), Police Cybercrime Training: Perceptions, Pedagogy and Policy. Policing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pay078
View Repository Record - Wood D; Cockcroft TW; Tong S; Bryant R (2017), The Importance of Context and Cognitive Agency in Developing Police Knowledge: Going Beyond the Police Science Discourse. Police Journal
https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X17696101
View Repository Record - Hallenberg K; Cockcroft TW (2017), From Indifference to Hostility: Police Officers, Organisational Responses and the Symbolic Value of 'In-Service' Higher Education in Policing. Policing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paw055
View Repository Record - Cockcroft TW; Bryant R; Keval H (2016), The Impact of Dispersal Orders on Congregating Youth. Safer Communities, vol. 15 (4), p. 213-222.
https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-11-2015-0038
View Repository Record - Cockcroft TW (2015), Golden Ages, Red Herrings and Post-Keynesian Policing: Understanding the Role of Police Culture in the Police Professionalism Debate. Nordisk Politiforskning, vol. 2 (2), p. 183-196.
View Repository Record - Cockcroft T (2014), Police culture and transformational leadership: outlining the contours of a troubled relationship. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, vol. 8
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pat040
View Repository Record - Cockcroft T (2005), Using oral history to investigate police culture. Qualitative Research, vol. 5
Books (2)
- Cockcroft T (2012) Police culture: themes and concepts. . Abingdon: Routledge.
- Cockcroft TW (2009) Crime, media and fear of crime. . Tipografiia.
Chapters (6)
- Bryant R; Cockcroft T; Tong S; Wood D (2013) Police training and education: past, present and future. In: Bryant R; Cockcroft T; Tong S; Wood D The Future of Policing. : Routledge, pp. .
- Cockcroft T (2010) Towards a criminological appreciation of police oral histories. In: Cockcroft T Le témoin, le sociologue et l'historien. : Nouveau Monde Editions, pp. .
- Cockcroft T (2009) Late modernity, risk and the construction of fear of crime. In: Cockcroft T Crime, Media and Fear of Crime. : Tipografiia, pp. 13-16.
- Cockcroft TW; Mesko G; Crawford A; LeMaitre A (2009) 'On Crime, Media and Fear of Crime'. In: Cockcroft TW; Mesko G; Crawford A; LeMaitre A Crime, Media and Fear of Crime. Ljubljana: Tipografija, pp. 5-11.
- Cockcroft T (2007) Police culture(s): some definitional, methodological, contextual and analytical considerations. In: Cockcroft T Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions. : Elsevier, pp. 85-102.
- Cockcroft T (1999) Oral history and the cultures of the police. In: Cockcroft T Qualitative Research in Criminology. : Ashgate Publishing, pp. .
Conference contributions (3)
- Cockcroft T (2009) An evaluation of the Broadstairs dispersal area . : .
- Cockcroft T (2008) Shifting cultures: managerialism and the rise of performance . : .
- Cockcroft T (2008) Thin blue lies? Making sense of police narratives . : .
Reports (8)
- Cockcroft TW; Hallenberg K (2014) Police and Higher Education. . Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University.
View Repository Record - Cockcroft T (2013) An Evaluation of the CIT 2011 Programme. . Canterbury Christchurch University.
View Repository Record - Cockcroft TW; Bryant R (2010) An Evaluation of Shepway Community Safety Unit's 'Four Shots and a Funeral' DVD. . .
View Repository Record - Bryant R; Cockcroft T (2009) An evaluation of the Broadstairs dispersal area. . Thanet District Council.
- Wincup E; Netten A; Oldfield M; Saunders R; Cockcroft T; Fenyo A (2006) An Evaluation of the Approved Premises Pathfinder, Final Report to the Home Office, 2006. . .
- Newburn T; Barnard L; Cockcroft T; Earle R; Gilling L; Hayman S; Netten A; Uglow S (2004) An Evaluation of the Introduction of Visual Recording of Police Interviews with Suspects, Final Report to Home Office. . .
- Cockcroft TW; Beattie I; Hale C; Uglow S (2004) Project Enhance: An Evaluation, Final Report to Home Office Police Standards Unit. . Home Office Police Standards Unit.
View Repository Record - Newburn T; Barnard L; Cockcroft T; Earle R; Gilling L; Hayman S; Netten A; Uglow S (2002) An Evaluation of the Introduction of Visual Recording of Police Interviews with Suspects, Interim Report for Home Office. . .
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Journal articles (13)
- Cockcroft TW; Shan-A-Khuda M; Schreuders Z; Trevorrow P (2018), Police Cybercrime Training: Perceptions, Pedagogy and Policy. Policing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pay078
View Repository Record - Cockcroft TW (2017), Police Culture: Histories, Orthodoxies, and New Horizons. Policing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pax029
View Repository Record - Wood D; Cockcroft TW; Tong S; Bryant R (2017), The Importance of Context and Cognitive Agency in Developing Police Knowledge: Going Beyond the Police Science Discourse. Police Journal
https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X17696101
View Repository Record - Hallenberg K; Cockcroft TW (2017), From Indifference to Hostility: Police Officers, Organisational Responses and the Symbolic Value of 'In-Service' Higher Education in Policing. Policing (Oxford): a journal of policy and practice
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paw055
View Repository Record - Cockcroft TW; Bryant R; Keval H (2016), The Impact of Dispersal Orders on Congregating Youth. Safer Communities, vol. 15 (4), p. 213-222.
https://doi.org/10.1108/SC-11-2015-0038
View Repository Record - Cockcroft TW (2016), On the Relevance of Police Organisational Culture Approaches to the Prison Context. Prison Service Journal(223), p. 30-35.
View Repository Record - Cockcroft TW (2015), Golden Ages, Red Herrings and Post-Keynesian Policing: Understanding the Role of Police Culture in the Police Professionalism Debate. Nordisk Politiforskning, vol. 2 (2), p. 183-196.
View Repository Record - Cockcroft T (2014), Police culture and transformational leadership: outlining the contours of a troubled relationship. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, vol. 8
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pat040
View Repository Record - Cockcroft T; Beattie I (2009), Shifting cultures: managerialism and the rise of ?performance?. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, vol. 32
- Cockcroft TW; beattie I (2006), Square Pegs and Round Holes: Performance Measurement in the Police and Prison Services. Prison Service Journal
- Beattie I; Cockcroft T (2006), Square pegs and round holes: performance measurement in the police and prison services. Prison Service Journal, vol. 168
- Cockcroft T (2006), Socio-environmental Influences on the Police Culture of the London Metropolitan Police Force Between the 1930s and 1960s. Varstvoslovje/ Journal of Criminal Justice and Security, vol. 3-4
- Cockcroft T (2005), Using oral history to investigate police culture. Qualitative Research, vol. 5
Books (2)
- Cockcroft T (2012) Police culture: themes and concepts. . Abingdon: Routledge.
- Cockcroft TW (2009) Crime, media and fear of crime. . Tipografiia.
Chapters (7)
- Cockcroft TW; Williams, Emma (2018) Williams, E. and Cockcroft, T. (2018), 'Knowledge Wars: Professionalisation, Organisational Justice and Competing Knowledge Paradigms in British Policing', in Huey, L. and Mitchell, R. Evidence-Based Policing: An Introduction, Bristol: Policy Press.. In: Cockcroft TW; Williams, Emma . Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 131-141.
- Bryant R; Cockcroft T; Tong S; Wood D (2013) Police training and education: past, present and future. In: Bryant R; Cockcroft T; Tong S; Wood D The Future of Policing. : Routledge, pp. .
- Cockcroft T (2010) Towards a criminological appreciation of police oral histories. In: Cockcroft T Le témoin, le sociologue et l'historien. : Nouveau Monde Editions, pp. .
- Cockcroft T (2009) Late modernity, risk and the construction of fear of crime. In: Cockcroft T Crime, Media and Fear of Crime. : Tipografiia, pp. 13-16.
- Cockcroft TW; Mesko G; Crawford A; LeMaitre A (2009) 'On Crime, Media and Fear of Crime'. In: Cockcroft TW; Mesko G; Crawford A; LeMaitre A Crime, Media and Fear of Crime. Ljubljana: Tipografija, pp. 5-11.
- Cockcroft T (2007) Police culture(s): some definitional, methodological, contextual and analytical considerations. In: Cockcroft T Police Occupational Culture: New Debates and Directions. : Elsevier, pp. 85-102.
- Cockcroft T (1999) Oral history and the cultures of the police. In: Cockcroft T Qualitative Research in Criminology. : Ashgate Publishing, pp. .
Conference contributions (27)
- Cockcroft TW (2018) 'The Role of Police Culture in the Police Professionalisation Agenda' Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 20180829. : .
- Schreuders C; Cockcroft TW (2017) Needs Assessment of Cybercrime and Digital Evidence Leeds Beckett University 20170525. : .
- Cockcroft TW; Shan-A-Khuda M (2017) Assessment of Methods of Cyber Training Leeds Beckett University 20170525. : .
- Schreuders ZC; Smith V; Butterfield EM; Miller S; Cockcroft TW; Horvath D; Trevorrow PA; Elliott JR; Lambourne AD; Dixon MB (2017) CARI Project Showcase Event: Tackling Cyber Crime and Improving Police Response Showcase Headingley, UK . : .
View Repository Record - Schreuders ZC; Cockcroft TW; Butterfield EM; Elliott JR; Shan-A-Khuda M (2017) Cybercrime Policing: Needs Analysis and Building a Research Culture Coventry, UK . : .
View Repository Record - Cockcroft TW; Hallenberg K (2016) Police Officer Experiences of Higher Education: Barriers/Drivers and Organisational Responses New Orleans, Louisiana 20161116. : .
- Cockcroft TW (2015) Policing and the Symbolic Victim: Locating the Child Victim in the Police Working Personality Plymouth 20150601. : .
- Cockcroft TW (2015) Using Police Culture to Understand Barriers to Effective Investigation Huddersfield 20150513. : .
- Cockcroft TW (2014) Police Culture, Transformational Leadership and the Rhetoric of 'Change' Liverpool 20140710. : .
- Cockcroft TW (2014) Police Culture: Negotiating the Boundary between Police and Academic Contexts Oslo, Norway 20140605. : .
- Cockcroft TW (2013) Police Culture and Transformational Leadership: Outlining the Contours of a Troubled Relationship Canterbury 20130903. : .
- Cockcroft TW; Bryant R (2013) Electrical Fires: An Analysis of a UK Fire Service Data Collection Windsor 20130624. : .
- Cockcroft TW (2011) Crime, Congregation and Public Space: Dispersal Orders and Young People Newcastle 20110704. : .
- Cockcroft TW (2009) An Evaluation of the Broadstairs Dispersal Area Cardiff 20090708. : .
- Cockcroft T (2009) An evaluation of the Broadstairs dispersal area . : .
- Cockcroft TW (2008) Thin Blue Lies? Making Sense of Police Narratives Huddersfield 20080709. : .
- Cockcroft T (2008) Shifting cultures: managerialism and the rise of performance . : .
- Cockcroft T (2008) Thin blue lies? Making sense of police narratives . : .
- Cockcroft TW (2006) Shifting Cultures: Managerialism and the Rise of Performance Ljubljana, Slovenia 20080924. : .
- Cockcroft TW; Beattie I (2006) Police Performance and Police Cultures Glasgow 20060705. : .
- Cockcroft TW; Earle R (2005) Justice-led Technology or Technology-led Justice? Future Prospects for Visual Recording of Police Interviews with Suspects Leeds 20050705. : .
- Cockcroft TW; Beattie I (2005) Square Pegs and Round Holes: Using Quantitative Indicators in Police Performance Leeds 20050706. : .
- Cockcroft TW; Earle R (2004) Lights! Camera! Inaction! The Introduction of Visual Recording in Police Interviews Leeds 20040714. : .
- Cockcroft TW; Earle R (2004) Lights! Camera! Inaction! The Introduction of Visual Recording in Police Interviews Portsmouth 20040707. : .
- Cockcroft TW (2002) Pre-1970s Metropolitan Police Culture and the Motivation to use Unauthorized Force 20020710. : .
- Cockcroft TW (1999) Cop Culture Re-assessed Liverpool 19990714. : .
- Cockcroft TW (1997) Police Occupational Culture between the 1930s and the 1960s Belfast 19970710. : .
Conference proceedings (peer reviewed) (1)
- Cockcroft TW; Bryant R (2013) Electrical Fires: An Analysis of a UK Fire Service Data Collection. In: Interflam 2013: The 13th International Fire Science and Engineering Conference Windsor . : , pp. .
Reports (9)
- Cockcroft TW; Hallenberg K (2014) Police and Higher Education. . Canterbury: Canterbury Christ Church University.
View Repository Record - Cockcroft T (2013) An Evaluation of the CIT 2011 Programme. . Canterbury Christchurch University.
View Repository Record - Bryant R; Cockcroft TW; Dileone N (2011) Cybercrime Investigation - Developing and Disseminating an Accredited International Training Programme for the Future. . European Commission.
- Cockcroft TW; Bryant R (2010) An Evaluation of Shepway Community Safety Unit's 'Four Shots and a Funeral' DVD. . .
View Repository Record - Bryant R; Cockcroft T (2009) An evaluation of the Broadstairs dispersal area. . Thanet District Council.
- Wincup E; Netten A; Oldfield M; Saunders R; Cockcroft T; Fenyo A (2006) An Evaluation of the Approved Premises Pathfinder, Final Report to the Home Office, 2006. . .
- Newburn T; Barnard L; Cockcroft T; Earle R; Gilling L; Hayman S; Netten A; Uglow S (2004) An Evaluation of the Introduction of Visual Recording of Police Interviews with Suspects, Final Report to Home Office. . .
- Cockcroft TW; Beattie I; Hale C; Uglow S (2004) Project Enhance: An Evaluation, Final Report to Home Office Police Standards Unit. . Home Office Police Standards Unit.
View Repository Record - Newburn T; Barnard L; Cockcroft T; Earle R; Gilling L; Hayman S; Netten A; Uglow S (2002) An Evaluation of the Introduction of Visual Recording of Police Interviews with Suspects, Interim Report for Home Office. . .
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Working papers (2)
- Schreuders ZC; Cockcroft TW; Butterfield EM; Elliott JR; Soobhany AR; Shan-A-Khuda M (In press), Needs Assessment of Cybercrime and Digital Evidence in a UK Police Force.
View Repository Record - Cockcroft TW; Trevorrow PA; Shan-A-Khuda M; Schreuders ZC (2018), Police Cybercrime Training: Perceptions, Pedagogy and Policy.
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