Dr Louise Westmarland

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

Social Policy and Criminology

Qualifications

BA (Hons) York., PhD Durham

Research Interests

Dr Louise Westmarland is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University. Her research interests include gender and the police, violence and integrity and ethics in the criminal justice system. She is also interested in ethnographic research methods, danger, fear and situations where privileged access leads to dilemmas for researchers. In addition she has published articles on police informers and the way they are regulated and the effect of this upon rights and justice. Her current research interests include women bouncers and violence in the context of social control of the night time economy. She has recently conducted an extensive survey of police officers’ behaviour and beliefs about their conduct. She is also working on a comparative study of the way homicides are reported and recorded in the UK and the US.

Recent Publications

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.