Police Books

New and Published Books

1. New Racial Missions of Policing

   International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics

   Edited by Paul Amar

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices. It pushes analytical and theoretical boundaries by examining...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. Investigating Computer-Related Crime, Second Edition

   By Peter Stephenson, Keith Gilbert

   Since the last edition of this book was written more than a decade ago, cybercrime has evolved. Motives have not changed, but new means and opportunities have arisen with the advancement of the digital age. Investigating Computer-Related Crime: Second Edition incorporates the results of research...

   Published April 18th 2013 by CRC Press
3. Policing Serious Crime in China

   From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'

   By Susan Trevaskes

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Out of Order? (Routledge Revivals)

   Policing Black People

   Edited by E. Cashmore, E. McLaughlin

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1991, this book evaluates and compares the problematic relationships that have sometimes existed between police and Afro-Caribbean people in Britain and in the United States of America. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic assess conflicting claims from police and black...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
5. Community Policing in Indigenous Communities

   Edited by Mahesh K. Nalla, Graeme R. Newman

   Indigenous communities are typically those that challenge the laws of the nation states of which they have become—often very reluctantly—a part. Around the world, community policing has emerged in many of these regions as a product of their physical environments and cultures. Through a series of...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by CRC Press
6. Introduction to Law Enforcement

   By David H. McElreath, Daniel Adrian Doss, Carl J. Jensen, III, Michael Wigginton Jr., Ralph Kennedy, Kenneth R. Winter, Robert E. Mongue, Janice Bounds, J. Michelle Estis-Sumerel

   Modern perspectives of law enforcement are both complex and diverse. They integrate management and statistical analysis functions, public and business administration functions, and applications of psychology, natural science, physical fitness, and marksmanship. They also assimilate theories of...

   Published February 25th 2013 by CRC Press
7. Women, Policing, and Male Violence (Routledge Revivals)

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Jalna Hanmer, Jill Radford, Elizabeth Stanko

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1989, this book focuses on the policing of male violence against women. It is an issue that has been criticised substantially in the past, and the book shows how even police themselves have sometimes admitted that women have received inadequate treatment. The book includes...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Understanding Criminal Justice

   A Critical Introduction

   By Azrini Wahidin, Nicola Carr

   Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice. Understanding Criminal Justice seeks to provide students with a critical introduction to the range of theoretical, policy and operational issues faced...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
9. Criminal Justice

   An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Peter Joyce

   This new and expanded edition builds upon material from the highly successful first edition. A comprehensive textbook on the criminal justice system, the book assesses the main theories concerned with the causes of crime (including white-collar and corporate crime), discusses the...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
10. Stop and Search

    Police Power in Global Context

    Edited by Leanne Weber, Ben Bowling

    Police powers to stop, question and search people in public places, and the way these powers are exercised, is a contentious aspect of police-community relations, and a key issue for criminological and policing scholarship, and for public debate about liberty and security more generally. Whilst...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge