Strip searches in police custody and their association with ethnicity/race: Evidence from an English force
Criminology & Criminal Justice
Published online on May 15, 2026
Abstract
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Recent high-profile cases have sparked concern about strip searches following stop and search, but less attention has been paid to strip-searching in police custody. Using binary logistic regression on data (N= 25,676) from an English police force, we ...
Recent high-profile cases have sparked concern about strip searches following stop and search, but less attention has been paid to strip-searching in police custody. Using binary logistic regression on data (N= 25,676) from an English police force, we ...