Author: Claire Davis

Claire Davis is Lecturer in Criminology at University of Leicester. Her research interests lie in the sociology of policing and the practice and experience of leadership, power and authority in a policing context. She is an Associate Inspector for Leadership with Her Majesty”s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services and the Book Review Editor for Policing and Society. Marisa Silvestri is Reader in Criminology at University of Kent. Her main research interests lie at the intersections of gender, crime, justice, policing. More specifically, her research focuses on the gendered dimensions of police leadership and the development of more complex readings of police organisational culture(s). She sits on the editorial board of Policing and Society and is an Executive Committee member of the British Society of Criminology.