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- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- Table of statutes
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction: understanding policing
- Image and reality
- Studying policing
- The volume
- Note
- References
- Part I Policing in Comparative and Historical Perspective
- 2 Models of policing
- Introduction
- England and Wales
- Continental Europe
- Colonial societies
- Communist societies
- Central/eastern Europe
- North America
- The Far East
- Explaining the differences
- Discussion
- Note
- Selected further reading
- References
- 3 Policing before the police
- Communal policing
- The rise of the official: the constable
- Public and private police in the eighteenth century
- The practice of policing: maintaining order
- The practice of policing: crime control
- The history of police and policing
- Selected further reading
- References
- 4 The birth and development of the police
- Introduction
- Origins and early years
- Consolidation
- New challenges and standardisation
- Selected further reading
- References
- 5 Policing since 1945
- Introduction
- The role and image of the police
- From Scarman to Stephen Lawrence
- Centralisation and control
- Policing and the police
- Conclusion
- Note
- Selected further reading
- References
- Part II The Context of Policing
- 6 The pattern of transnational policing
- Introduction
- The conditions of possibility of transnational policing
- The growth of transnational policing
- Origins and consolidation
- The European Union
- Explaining recent patterns
- Current trends and future prospects
- Transnational private policing
- The European Union
- The USA
- Future prospects
- Selected further reading
- References
- 7 Plural policing in the UK: policing beyond the police
- Introduction
- What is policing?
- The context of contemporary policing
- The civilianisation and fragmentation of the public police
- Community support officers
- Specialist policing bodies and regulatory authorities
- Municipal policing
- Public auxiliaries and wardens
- Local authority patrols
- Community safety, anti-social behaviour and policing through social policy
- Policing through social housing
- Civilian policing
- Embedded policing
- Commercial policing
- Regulating commercial security
- The growing market for policing
- Mass private property
- Private residential estates
- Urban fortunes
- The expansion of the night-time economy
- The policing of the internet
- The relationship between the police and other policing organisations
- An integrationist or monopolistic model
- A steering model
- A network model
- A market model
- A private government model
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 8 Policing in Scotland
- The contexts of Scottish policing
- Historical context
- Legal context
- Constitutional context
- Organisation and structure
- Central police services
- The debate on structures
- Approaches to policing in Scotland
- Community policing
- Strategic approaches to policing communities
- Governance and accountability
- The ‘new’ accountabilities
- Police complaints
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 9 The police service of Northern Ireland
- Introduction
- Historical context of policing in Northern Ireland
- The Patten Report and police reform
- The new landscape of policing in Northern Ireland
- Oversight and the institutional environment of policing
- The PSNI and operational policing
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 10 The police organisation
- Introduction
- The police of England and Wales
- The structure of police organisations
- Ranks, recruitment and career development
- Workforce modernisation
- Mapping policing tasks
- Management, control and oversight
- Policing stakeholders
- The development of national policing structures
- Conclusion
- Selected further reading
- References
- 11 Police cultures
- Introduction
- Why police cultures?
- Problems of definition
- History of police cultural studies
- Michael Banton
- Jerome Skolnick
- Maureen Cain
- John Van Maanen
- Across the departmental ‘cultures’
- Racist cultures
- Sexist cultures
- Cultures, corruption and change
- Challenges to police cultural conceptions
- Status cultures
- Management cultures
- Conclusions
- Selected further reading
- References
- 12 Police powers
- Introduction
- ‘Modelling’ police powers
- Police decisions ‘on the street’
- ‘Reasonable suspicion’ and discretion
- Patterns of bias and police working rules
- Police powers on the street: inclusionary or exclusionary?
- Detention and questioning
- Grounds for detention, time limits and police bail
- Access to legal advice
- Police interrogation
- How well regulated are police powers of detention and questioning?
- Other evidence-gathering powers
- Prosecution
- The misuse of police powers
- Conclusion
- Selected further reading
- References
- 13 Policing and the media
- Introduction: the Odd Couple – the media and policing
- The debate about the media and social order
- Constructing police fetishism: images of policing and the media before the Second World War
- A darker shade of blue: police and the media since the Second World War
- Conclusion: the Teflon service and the reproduction of police fetishism
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- Part III Doing Policing
- 14 Crime reduction and community safety
- Introduction
- Crime reduction and community safety: Tweedledum and Tweedledee?
- Crime reduction within the police service: aspirations and achievements
- The coming of partnership?
- Central government shaping of the crime reduction landscape
- Love and loathing in the age of partnerships
- How does one think about crime reduction?
- What works?
- Where to concentrate crime reduction effort: hotspots and repeat victimisation
- What to do
- Making a difference: police colleagues
- Policing style
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 15 Modern approaches to policing: community, problem-oriented and intelligence-led
- Introduction: new models for policing
- The three models outlined
- Community policing
- Problem-oriented policing
- Intelligence-led policing
- The relationships between the models
- The models in practice
- Problem-oriented policing
- Community policing
- Intelligence-led policing
- Conclusion: prospects for the three models
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 16 ‘Interpretation for action?’: definitions and potential of crime analysis for policing
- Introduction
- Analysing analysis: process, product and person
- Developments in policing and the demand for analysis
- Management demand
- Operational demand
- Getting the job done: the types, techniques and theories of crime analysis
- The strengths and weaknesses of analytical techniques
- Offender profiling
- Approaches to offender profiling
- Critiques of offender profiling
- Theory for practice: developing explanation in volume crime analysis
- Reason, rationality and routine: theory for crime analysis
- ‘Opportunity blocked’: analysis, action and results
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 17 Criminal investigation and crime control
- Introduction
- Historical and theoretical perspectives
- The CID and the birth of ‘modern’ investigative practice
- Key roles of criminal investigation
- Myths and misunderstandings: the ghost of Sherlock Holmes
- Challenging the myths: ‘suspect centred’ investigation and ‘case construction’
- Taking account of variety
- The ‘reactive-proactive’ distinction
- Knowledge’ and ‘Evidence’
- Twentieth-century investigative practice: key features and inherent risks
- The three main organisational structures
- ‘Generalist’ CID offices
- Specialist squads
- Major inquiry teams
- Risks, failures and a crisis in legitimacy
- Responses to the crisis: glimpses of a radically different future?
- Responses to concerns about integrity
- Efforts to improve effectiveness
- Improvements to major inquiries
- Signs of more fundamental change: NIM, partnership and beyond
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 18 Police use of force, firearms and riot-control
- Monopolists of force?
- A history of ‘unarmed policing’
- Firearms and policing
- Policing riots
- Legitimacy and law
- Contemporary developments
- Routine use of force
- Riot-control
- Police use of firearms
- Policing terrorism
- Low-lethality and the search for a magic bullet
- Abuse of force and accountability
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 19 Drugs policing
- Introduction
- Early history
- Organisation and specialisation
- Financial detection
- Transnationalisation of drugs policing
- From the global back to the local
- National and local drugs policing
- ‘Counting’ drug enforcement
- Low-level drug enforcement
- Rule-bending and other forms of police misconduct
- Conclusion
- Selected further reading
- References
- 20 Policing fraud and organised crime
- Introduction
- The harm of fraud and organised crime
- The organisation of organised crime policing
- The control of organised crime internationally
- Responses to fraud
- Police policy and fraud in the UK
- New public management and fraud policing
- Developing fraud investigations
- Mutual co-operation between police fraud squads
- Prosecution and its relationship to policing fraud
- The future of fraud investigation
- Regulation and the control of fraud
- Regulation and the prevention of organised crime
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 21 Policing terror
- Secrets and research
- Outline
- Conceptualising terrorism
- The process of terrorism
- Operational constructions of terrorism
- The organisation of counter-terrorism policing
- A short history of UK counter-terrorism policing
- Doing counter-terrorism
- Preventing terrorism: prospective offender searches
- Visions of al-Qaeda
- Intelligence
- Collection
- Transmission
- Application
- Governance and legitimacy
- Hearts and minds
- Logics of governance
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 22 Policing cybercrime: emerging trends and future challenges
- Introduction
- ‘Official’ responses to the challenge of cybercrime
- Policing cybercrime
- What is cybercrime?
- Pornography
- Hate crime
- Electronic theft and intellectual property rights
- Invasion of privacy and theft of identity
- Information security, personal security and cyber-trespass
- Industrial espionage and workplace sabotage
- Specialist units for policing cybercrime
- Problems with policing cyberspace
- The volume and scope of cybercrime and the problem of jurisdiction
- Under-reporting of cybercrime
- Police culture
- Limited resources
- The challenge of Operation Ore
- Policing cybercrime: emerging trends and challenges for the future
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- Part IV Themes and Debates in Policing
- 23 Policing minority ethnic communities
- Introduction
- Discrimination in policing: police culture and its context
- Police targeting: the criminalisation of minority ethnic communities
- ‘Race’, riots and the police: public order policing in minority ethnic communities
- Excessive force: police violence and deaths in custody
- Proactive policing: the use of stop and search powers
- Disproportionality in the use of stop and search
- Explaining disproportionality
- Arrest and the decision to charge
- Attitudes towards the police
- Contacting the police
- The police response to racist violence
- A multi-ethnic force? Black and Asian officers in the British police
- Experiences in the job
- Retention
- Promotion
- Meeting recruitment targets
- Linking equal opportunities with equality of service
- Discrimination and police governance
- Complaints procedures
- Redress through civil litigation
- The Lawrence Inquiry and beyond: reflecting on the new agenda
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 24 Gender and policing
- Women in policing and policing of and for women
- Integration and afterwards
- Models of equality
- Coming to terms with police culture
- Careers
- New agendas
- Policing women and policing for women
- Selected further reading
- References
- 25 Policing and ethics
- Introduction
- A brief history of police ethics
- Police professionalism
- Police discretion
- Covert policing
- Police corruption
- The principles of policing
- The police as professionals
- Performance ethics
- Public participation in policing
- The police in action
- Towards ethical policing
- Note
- Selected further reading
- References
- 26 The accountability of policing
- Introduction
- Accountability and democratic policing
- Organisational accountability: police governance in England and Wales
- The legislative framework
- Trends in the framework of police governance
- Pluralisation
- Individual forms of accountability: complaints mechanisms and legal redress
- Complaints against the police
- Legal regulation of policing
- The democratic framework of police governance
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 27 Leadership and performance management
- Introduction
- Police leadership
- Definitional and conceptual issues
- Crises of leadership
- Models and leadership styles – the pursuit of transformational leadership
- Leadership and performance management – a contradiction in terms?
- Performance management
- The governance of performance management
- The challenge of police leadership within a performance culture
- Performance management, leadership and discretion
- Developing leaders within a performance regime
- Conclusion
- Selected further reading
- References
- 28 Policing and forensic science
- Introduction
- Forensic science, crime scene examination and criminal investigation
- The dynamics of crime scene examination
- Police perceptions of forensic science
- Using forensic science: building the foundations of evidence-based practice
- Forensic science and intelligence led policing
- An international dimension
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Selected further reading
- References
- 29 Restorative justice, victims and the police
- Introduction
- Defining the concept of restorative justice
- Non-crime dispute resolution: towards restorative policing?
- The dangers of restorative policing
- Restorative justice in 2008: still some talk but much less action
- Conclusion: envisaging a new approach for restorative justice
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Selected further reading
- References
- 30 The future of policing
- Changing social context of policing
- The further pluralisation of policing?
- Increasing responsibilisation and citizen involvement
- Pressures toward centralisation and regionalisation
- Transnationalisation and democratic governance
- Localisation and managerialism
- Policing and diversity
- Techniques and technology?
- Terror and security
- Policing futures
- Note
- References
- Glossary
- Index
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