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131. Policing: An introduction to concepts and practice

     By Alan Wright

     This book provides a highly readable introduction to the role and function of the police and policing, examining the issues and debates that surround this. It looks at the 'core functions' of the police, the ways in which police functions have developed, their key characteristics, and the...

     Published October 31st 2001 by Willan
132. Policing: A short history

     By Philip Rawlings

     This book provides an overview of the history of policing in the UK. Its primary aim is to investigate the shifting nature of policing over time, and to provide a historical foundation to today's debates. Policing: a short history moves away from a focus on the origins of the 'new police', and...

     Published July 31st 2001 by Willan
133. Offender Profiling and Crime Analysis

     By Peter Ainsworth

     Offender Profiling and Crime Analysis provides a highly readable account of the subject, and a picture of profiling which by no means accords with popular views and representations of what is involved. The book provides an overview of profiling techniques, offering some fascinating insights into...

     Published February 28th 2001 by Willan
134. Policing, Ethics and Human Rights

     By Peter Neyroud, Alan Beckley

     Ethical and human rights issues have assumed an increasingly high profile in the wake of miscarriages of justice, racism (Lawrence Inquiry), incompetence and corruption - in both Britain and overseas. At the same time the implementation of the Human Rights Act 1998 in England and Wales will have a...

     Published December 31st 2000 by Willan
135. Informers

     Policing, policy, practice

     Edited by Roger Billingsley, Teresa Nemitz, Philip Bean

     The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected. Yet little is known about the informer system and how it works, for example: who are these informers? how are they recruited? how are they handled? who handles...

     Published October 31st 2000 by Willan
136. Watching Police, Watching Communities

     By Mike McConville, Dan Shepherd

     From the early 80s community policing has been held up as a new commitment to the ideals of service and the rejection of coercive policing styles. The idea was to encourage a partnership between the public and police in which community needs would be met by officers on local beats. Today,...

     Published May 27th 1992 by Routledge