Professor Louise Westmarland
Professor Of Criminology
Biography
Research interests
Louise Westmarland (2013): 'Snitches get stitches': US homicide detectives' ethics and morals in action, Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, DOI:10.1080/10439463.2013.784313
Westmarland, L. (2011) Researching Crime and Justice: Tales from the Field. London: Routledge.
Westmarland, Louise (2010). Dodgy customers? Can the police ever trust the public? Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 4(3), pp. 291-297.
Clarke, J, Newman,J, Smith, N, Vidler, E and Westmarland, L (2007) Creating Citizen-consumers: Changing Publics and Changing Public Services. Sage: London
Hobbs, D, O'Brien, K, and Westmarland, L. (2007) Connecting the Gendered Door: women, violence and doorwork. British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 21-38
O'Brien, K., Hobbs, D. and Westmarland, L., (2007) 'Negotiating Violence and Gender: Security and the Night Time Economy in the UK', in Body-Gendrot, S and Spierenburg, P., (eds ) Cultures of Violence in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Springer Publishing .
Westmarland, L. (2005) Police Ethics and Integrity: Breaking the Blue Code of Silence, Policing and Society, vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 145-165
Westmarland, L. (2003) 'Policing Integrity: Britain's Thin Blue Line' in Klockars,C.B., Haberfeld,M. and Kutjnak Ivkovich, S. The Contours of Police Integrity, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage
Westmarland, L. (2002) 'Challenges of Policing London: A Conversation with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir John Stevens', Police Practice and Research. An International Journal, vol.3, no.3, pp.247-260.
Westmarland, L. (2001) Gender and Policing. Sex, Power and Police Culture, Devon, Willan.
Westmarland, L. (2001) 'Blowing the whistle on police violence: ethics, research and ethnography', British Journal of Criminology, vol.41, no.2, pp.523-35.
Westmarland, L. (2000) 'Taking the flak: operational policing, fear and violence' in Lee-Treweek, G. and Linkogle, S. Danger in the Field: Risk and Ethics in Social Research, London, Routledge.
Westmarland, L. (2000) 'Telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?' Ethical Human Services and Sciences, vol.2, no.3, pp.193-202.
Westmarland, L. and Yearley, S. (2000) 'Scientific selection and the CID', Police Research and Management, vol.4, no.4.
Westmarland, L. (1999) 'Women Managing in the Police', Police Research and Management, vol.3, no.3.
A repository of research publications and other research outputs can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.
Teaching interests
Since Chairing the development, production and presentation of the Faculty's first Level 3 criminology course I have been involved in postgraduate and undergraduate presentations such as DD215, our undergraduate research methods module, and also DD212 our theory course. I also supervise PhD students and take a keen interest in curriculum changes that have been taking place over the years. I've had a long association with The Open University, taking courses as an undergraduate, then serving as a tutor for 7 years, including 5 years of summer schools and exam marking duties.
Projects
British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2021: ‘Crime and Harm: Challenges of Social and Global Justice?'
AMS record created to record the income and payments to the BSC for hosting of the British Society of Criminology Annual Conference 2021: ‘Crime and Harm: Challenges of Social and Global Justice?'
Publications
Book
Researching crime and justice: tales from the field (2011)
Criminal Justice: Local and Global (2009)
Creating citizen-consumers: Changing Publics and changing public services (2007)
Book Chapter
Visual and online methods (2021)
'Snitches get stitches?': telling tales on homicide detectives (2016)
Outsiders inside: ethnography and police culture (2015)
Getting behind the blue curtain: managing police integrity (2015)
Justice, globalisation and human rights (2009)
Gender abuse and people trafficking (2009)
Punitiveness and cultures of control (2009)
Interrogating criminal justice (2009)
Risk prediction, assessment and management (2009)
Awkward customers? Policing in a consumer age (2009)
Conflict resolution and alternative justice (2009)
Creating citizen-consumers? Public service reform and (un)willing selves (2007)
Journal Article
Police ethics and integrity: Keeping the ‘blue code’ of silence (2020)
Police ethics and integrity: Can a new code overturn the blue code? (2018)
Putting their Bodies on the Line: Police Culture and Gendered Physicality (2017)
Governance of policing and cultural codes: interpreting and responding to policy directives (2016)
‘Snitches get stitches’: US homicide detectives' ethics and morals in action (2013)
Dodgy customers? Can the police ever trust the public? (2010)
The antagonisms of choice: New Labour and the reform of public services (2008)
Connecting the gendered door: women, violence and doorwork (2007)
Police ethics and integrity: breaking the blue code of silence (2005)
Blowing the whistle on police violence. Gender, ethnography and ethics (2001)