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31. Crime Reduction and Problem-oriented Policing

    Edited by Karen Bullock, Nick Tilley

    Series: Crime Science Series

    Problem-oriented policing has been one of the most significant new approaches to policing and crime reduction in recent years, and in the UK significant funding was provided to a variety of projects adopting a problem solving methodology in both policing and crime prevention and reduction...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
32. Gender and Policing

    By Louise Westmarland

    Gender and Policing is an innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic research (involving police responses to gangland shootings, high speed car chases as well as more routine policing activities),...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
33. Ideology, Crime and Criminal Justice

    Edited by Anthony Bottoms, Michael Tonry

    Series: Cambridge Criminal Justice Series

    In this book six leading criminologists address the central issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice in a series of essays originally presented at a symposium held in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz in Cambridge in March 2001. This book is concerned with the key themes of the history of...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
34. Police Custody

    Governance, Legitimacy and Reform in the Criminal Justice Process

    By Layla Skinns

    Police custody acts as an important gateway to the criminal justice process. Much is at stake here for both staff and suspects as what happens in police custody can have important consequences further down the line. This book offers a timely contribution to research on police custody, which has...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
35. Policing Images

    By Rob Mawby

    In recent years the police have become one of the most watched and most visible organisations, and across the media there has been constant interest in the police. In such a situation the police themselves have been intensely concerned with promoting, projecting and protecting the police image....

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
36. Women in Charge

    By Marisa Silvestri

    This book is concerned with the gendered world of police leadership at a time when calls are being made for a different kind of police leader to guide the organisation through the twenty-first century. Drawing on in-depth interviews carried out with senior policewomen across a range of police...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
37. Fear and Crime in Latin America

    Redefining State-Society Relations

    By Lucía Dammert

    Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

    The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored by social sciences. However, it has a deep social, cultural and economic impact and may even contribute to define the very structures of the state. In Latin America, fear of crime has become an important...

    Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
38. Police in the Age of Improvement

    By David Barrie

    The study of police history in Scotland has largely been neglected. Little is known about the Scottish police's origins, development and character despite growing interest in the machinery of law enforcement in other parts of the United Kingdom. This book seeks to remedy this deficiency. Based on...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
39. Pre-Employment Background Investigations for Public Safety Professionals

    By Frank A. Colaprete

    Pre-employment investigations have been the subject of intense review and debate since 9/11 made the vetting of applicants a critical function of every organization. Nowhere has the scrutiny been more intense than in the public safety sector. Pre-Employment Background Investigations for Public...

    Published May 9th 2012 by CRC Press
40. TV Cops

    The Contemporary American Television Police Drama

    By Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

    The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations—from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wire—embodies the full...

    Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge