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Louise Westmarland

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Professor Westmarland’s work is largely focussed on the police. She has conducted extensive studies of gender and policing, police ethics and integrity. She is also a Home Office trained Domestic Homicide Reviewer and is currently the Chair of the Open University’s Human Research Ethics Committee. Louise Westmarland is a member of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research at The Open University. She has written widely on police and policing, specifically on various aspects of police culture such as her book on Gender and Policing: Sex, Power and Police Culture (Willan Publishing, 2001), and on violence and police culture, ethics and integrity.