Author:
Publisher: Croom Helm
Keywords: policing, modern
Number of Pages: 271
Published: 1981-05-13
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0709920083
ISBN-13: 9780709920083

Author: Tim Newbur
Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
Keywords: policing, handbook
Number of Pages: 928
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 1843920190
ISBN-13: 9781843920199

This volume aims to provide a comprehensive but readable overview of policing in the UK, reflecting the transformations that have taken place in recent years and the increasing professionalisation of one of the country’s most important services. The "Handbook of Policing" is divided into four major sections. The first considers policing in its comparative and historical context, looking at the major models of policing and how policing has developed from its origins to the present day. The second section considers the context in which policing takes place, analysing domestic and internati

Author: Tim Newbur
Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
Keywords: policing, handbook
Number of Pages: 875
Published: 2008-08-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1843923238
ISBN-13: 9781843923237

This new edition of the "Handbook of Policing" updates and expands the highly successful first edition, and now includes a completely new chapter on policing and forensics. It provides a comprehensive but highly readable overview of policing in the UK, and is an essential reference point combining the expertise of leading academic experts on policing and policing practitioners themselves.

Author: Professor Eugene McLaughlin
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: policing, new
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2006-12-04
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0803989059
ISBN-13: 9780803989054

The New Policing provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical issues confronting policing today. It incorporates an overview of traditional approaches to the study of the police with a discussion of current perspectives. The book goes on to examine key themes, including the core purpose of contemporary policework; the reconfiguration of police culture; organizational issues and dilemmas currently confronting the police; the managerial reforms and professional innovations that have been implemented in recent years; and the future of policing, security, and crime control. In offering th

Author: Jerry H. Ratcliffe
Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
Keywords: policing, intelligence
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2008-02
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 1843923394
ISBN-13: 9781843923398

What is intelligence-Led policing? Who came up with the idea? Where did it come from? How does it related to other policing paradigms? What distinguishes an intelligence-Led approach to crime reduction? How is it designed to have an impact on crime? Does it prevent crime? What is crime disruption? Is intelligence-Led policing just for the police? These are questions asked by many police professionals, including senior officers, analysts and operational staff, as well as students of policing. The answers to these questions are the subject of this book."Intelligence-Led Policing" brings the conc

Author: Peter K. Manning
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: contingencies, policing
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-07-15
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0226503518
ISBN-13: 9780226503516

Despite constant calls for reform, policing in the United States and Britain has changed little over the past thirty years. In Policing Contingencies, Peter K. Manning draws on decades of fieldwork to investigate how law enforcement works on the ground and in the symbolic realm, and why most efforts to reform the way police work have failed so far.Manning begins by developing a model of policing as drama—a way of communicating various messages to the public in an effort to enforce moral boundaries. Unexpected outcomes, or contingencies, continually rewrite the plot of this drama, requiring o

Author: Dennis J. Stevens
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Keywords: partnerships, community, policing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2001-03-11
List price: $36.60
ISBN-10: 0130280496
ISBN-13: 9780130280497

This timely book is a virtual "how to" manual to help guide the promotion of public safety and the quality of life in American neighborhoods by law enforcement agencies. It reflects a fundamental shift from traditional, reactive policing to priorities of prevention through community partnerships. Attempts to bring agencies closer to developing a "best" model that can at the same time be a successful classroom tool. Offers a comprehensive literature search—includes explanations and links to a practical and theoretical community policing rationale. Presents varied models of community policin