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21. Police Culture

    Themes and Concepts

    By Tom Cockcroft

    Police culture has for over half a century attracted interest from academics, students, policy-makers, police institutions and the general public. However, the literature of this area has proven to be diverse, sprawling and prone to contradiction which has led to an enthralling yet intricate body...

    Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
22. Effective Expert Witnessing, Fifth Edition

    Practices for the 21st Century

    By Jack V. Matson

    The testimony of an expert witness can lead to success or failure in cases that hinge on the presentation’s impact on a jury. Effective Expert Witnessing, Fifth Edition: Practices for the 21st Century explores the fundamentals of litigation, trial preparation, courtroom presentation, and the...

    Published August 29th 2012 by CRC Press
23. Concepts and Case Studies in Threat Management

    By Frederick S. Calhoun, Stephen W. Weston, J.D.

    Professionalization has come to the field of threat management. It has developed a systematic theory unique to the field, recognized authorities have emerged, and it is finding its own ethical code of conduct. It is also beginning to grow its own culture, complete with a vocabulary of its own....

    Published August 23rd 2012 by CRC Press
24. Policing in an Age of Austerity

    A postcolonial perspective

    By Graham Ellison, Mike Brogden

    Policing in an Age of Austerity uniquely examines the effects on one key public service: the state police of England and Wales. Focusing on the major cut-backs in its resources, both in material and in labour, it details the extent and effects of that drastic reduction in provision together with...

    Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
25. Los Angeles Police Department Meltdown

    The Fall of the Professional-Reform Model of Policing

    By James Lasley

    Series: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

    Once considered among the most respected police departments in the world, the LAPD suffered a devastating fall from grace following the 1991 police officer beating of Rodney King and the Los Angeles riots stemming from the officers’ acquittal in 1992. Unique to the literature of policing,...

    Published August 7th 2012 by CRC Press
26. Just Authority?

    Trust in the Police in England and Wales

    By Jonathan Jackson, Ben Bradford, Betsy Stanko, Katrin Hohl

    What does it mean to trust the police? What makes the police legitimate in the eyes of the policed? What builds trust, legitimacy and cooperation, and what undermines the bond between police and the public? These questions are central to current debates concerning the relationship between the...

    Published July 29th 2012 by Willan
27. Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe?

    Processes of Criminalisation within Central and Eastern European Societies

    Edited by Kay Goodall, Margaret Malloch, Bill Munro

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    After the collapse of the Berlin wall in 1989 and disintegration of the Soviet Union, scholars focused on the problems of legal transitions within the newly emerging democracies. Two decades on, these states are in ‘post-transition’ conditions; having undergone and continuing to experience...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
28. Technocrime: Policing and Surveillance

    Edited by Stéphane Leman-Langlois

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    The growth of technology allows us to imagine entirely new ways of committing, combating and thinking about criminality, criminals, police, courts, victims and citizens. Technology offers not only new tools for committing and fighting crime, but new ways to look for, unveil, label crimes and new...

    Published July 11th 2012 by Routledge
29. Global Environment of Policing

    Edited by Darren Palmer, Michael M. Berlin, Dilip K. Das

    Police organizations across the globe are experiencing major changes. Many nations cope with funding constraints as pressures within their societies, terrorism and transnational crime, and social and political transformations necessitate a more democratic form of policing. Drawn from the...

    Published June 4th 2012 by CRC Press
30. Policing Sex

    Edited by Paul Johnson, Derek Dalton

    This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexual crimes (from child...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge