Article

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 and Bullock, Karen (2024) “The community supporting the community…that's where its strength is”: exploring the contemporary position of Neighbourhood Watch in the United Kingdom. Safer Communities. ISSN 1757-8043 (Print), 2042-8774 (Online) (In Press)

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2021) Theorising the police support volunteer experience in an English constabulary: a role identity perspective. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 32 (8). pp. 1031-1047. ISSN 1043-9463 (Print), 1477-2728 (Online) (doi:10.1080/10439463.2021.1999449)

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2021) ‘Once I joined my motivations changed’: exploring the initial and continuing motivations of police support volunteers in an English constabulary. Policing, 15 (4). pp. 2297-2309. ISSN 1752-4512 (Print), 1752-4520 (Online) (doi:10.1093/police/paab057)

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2020) BOOK REVIEW Volunteer police, choosing to serve: exploring, comparing, and assessing volunteer policing in the United States and the United Kingdom by Ross Wolf and Carol Borland Jones, New York, Routledge, 2018, 186 pp., £120 (hardback)/£36.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781466564954. Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy, 30 (7). pp. 870-872. ISSN 1043-9463 (Print), 1477-2728 (Online) (doi:10.1080/10439463.2020.1803316)

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2020) An academic’s view on the barriers to reporting crime. CrimeStoppers' Connections Magazine, 21. pp. 10-12.

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349, Bullock, Karen and McCarthy, Daniel (2020) Exploring the role and contribution of police support volunteers in an English constabulary. Policing, 15 (4). pp. 2015-2028. ISSN 1752-4512 (Print), 1752-4520 (Online) (doi:10.1093/police/paaa005)

Callender, Matthew, Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349, Cahalin, Kathryn and Britton, Iain (2018) Exploring the police support volunteer experience: findings from a national survey. Policing and Society, 29 (4). pp. 392-406. ISSN 1043-9463 (Print), 1477-2728 (Online) (doi:10.1080/10439463.2018.1432613)

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2016) Distant relatives or part of the family? Exploring the evidence on police volunteers. Policing Insight.

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 and Silvestri, Marisa (2016) ‘It’s Like Another Family Innit’: building police-youth relations through the metropolitan police service volunteer police cadet programme. Policing, 11 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 1752-4512 (Print), 1752-4520 (Online) (doi:10.1093/police/paw007)

Book Section

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2022) Supporting and developing Police Support Volunteers in a large urban constabulary in England, UK. In: Hirshmann, Nathalie, John, Tobias, Reichl, Frauke and Garand, Jacqueline Abigail, (eds.) Plural Policing in the Global North: Insights into Concepts, Abstracts and Practices. Social Sciences (R0), 1 . Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 87-109. ISBN 978-3031162725; 978-3031162732 (doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16273-2_6)

Conference Proceedings

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2018) Doing more for less in changing times? The use of volunteers in policing. In: EUROCRIM 2018: 18th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology: Crimes Against Humans and Crimes against Humanity Book of abstracts. European Society of Criminology, p. 266. (Unpublished)

Conference or Conference Paper

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 and Bullock, Karen (2023) Safer roads through citizen partnerships: enhancing road safety with community speedwatch volunteers. In: British Society of Criminology (BSC), 27th - 30th June 2023, University of Central Lancashire. (Unpublished)

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2020) Police support volunteers: unrecognised and under the radar? In: CRIMVOL network: The International Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Research Network Fourth CRIMVOL virtual working paper session, 5th November 2020, Online.

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2019) Between inside and outside: exploring the role and contribution of police support volunteers. In: British Society of Criminology Conference 2019: Public Criminologies: Community, Conflict and Justice, 02-05 Jul 2019, Lincoln, UK. (Unpublished)

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2017) Doing more for less in changing times? The use of volunteers in policing. In: American Society of Criminology 73rd Annual Meeting, 15-18 Nov 2017, Philadelphia, USA. (Unpublished)

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 and McAleese, Samantha (2017) CRIMVOL: The International Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Research Network. In: Network American Society of Criminology 2017, 15-18 November 2017, Philadelphia.

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2016) Doing more for less in changing times: the use of volunteers in policing. In: American Society of Criminology Conference: The Many Colors of Crime and Justice, 16-19 Nov 2016, New Orleans, USA. (Unpublished)

Working Paper

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 (2020) Report on the launch event of the CRIMVOL virtual working paper series. [Working Paper]

Monograph

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 and Bullock, Karen (2024) Safer roads through citizen partnerships: enhancing road safety with community speedwatch volunteers (Report to Road Safety Trust). Project Report. The Road Safety Trust, Surrey and Sussex Constabularies; London.

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 and McKinnon, Helena (2017) Harmful Practices Pilot: Final Evaluation Report. Project Report. Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).

Pepper, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-2349 and Dawson, Paul (2016) Alcohol Abstinence Monitoring Requirement: A process review of the proof of concept pilot (MOPAC Evidence and Insight Unit evaluation report). Project Report. Drug and Alcohol Findings, London, UK.