Questions about the Stop and Search poster

What’s on the Stop and Search poster?

What is claimed against What research finds, side by side. What is claimed: Deters carrying of weapons and drugs; What is claimed: Disrupts offending in high-crime areas; What is claimed: Produces arrests and intelligence; What is claimed: Reassures the public where crime is high; What research finds: Effects on crime are small at best; What research finds: Detection per search is low; What research finds: Ethnic disparities in rates are documented; What research finds: Heavy use is linked to lower trust; What research finds: Findings vary by place and study design; Rate disparities are measured and consistent; both their causes and the crime effect…. Educational reference. Powers, thresholds and recording rules differ by jurisdiction. Not legal advice on any stop.

Who is the Stop and Search poster for?

Stop and Search belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning policing can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Stop and Search poster?

Use it as a worked case in reading contested policing evidence carefully. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Stop and Search belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Stop and Search?

Body-Worn Cameras, The Broken Windows Debate and Hot Spot Policing sit alongside Stop and Search in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Body-Worn CamerasThe Broken Windows DebateHot Spot Policing

Is the Stop and Search poster free to download and print?

Yes. Stop and Search downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Stop and Search poster print at?

Stop and Search is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Stop and Search loses nothing.Printing guide