Autism and Operational Policing

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Chown, N., Debbaudt, D., Beardon, L., Cossburn, K., & Scott, J. (2021). Autism and Operational Policing. In Handbook of Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Law (pp. 471-500). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70913-6_23

Publication date: 1 Jan 2021 Added to AutiHub: 5 Jul 2026 Type: Book chapter Article language: English
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Authors

Publication authors
5
Publication authors identified as autistic
1 / 5 (20.0%)
  1. Nicholas Chown *
  2. Dennis Debbaudt
  3. Luke Beardon
  4. Kleio Cossburn
  5. Jack Scott

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Bibliography cited by this reference

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Cited bibliography overview

These indicators describe the bibliography cited by this publication. An author name is counted each time it appears in one cited reference, so the same person can be counted more than once. Names not yet linked to an author already present in AutiHub are treated as unknown, not as non-autistic. Last computed: 2 Oct 2026 07:50.

Cited references
32
With a DOI
21
Without a DOI, from raw bibliography text
9
3 / 32 (9.4%) cited references include at least one author identified as autistic.
References with data to complete
7 / 32 (21.9%)
References with detected author names
27 / 32 (84.4%)
Without detected author names
5
Without a structured title
7
Without a stable identifier
9
References with raw author names still to review
5
References with external metadata lookup issues
1
These indicators apply to cited references displayed on this page, after technical duplicates have been merged. A reference without a DOI can still support author statistics when a title and author names are available.
Author names detected in the cited bibliography
72
From DOI or external metadata
72
From validated raw bibliography text
0
Raw names already validated
0
Raw names still to review
7
14 / 72 (19.4%) names are linked to an author already present in AutiHub. 58 / 72 (80.6%) names are not yet linked.
Names linked to a person identified as autistic
5 / 72 (6.9%)
Calculated across all author names detected in the cited bibliography. Among names linked to an author already present in AutiHub: 5 / 14 (35.7%). Distinct people identified as autistic: 4 / 69 (5.8%).
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