Police Books

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41. Online Child Sexual Abuse

    Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World

    By Elena Martellozzo

    Online Child Sexual Abuse: Grooming, Policing and Child Protection in a Multi-Media World addresses the complex, multi-faceted and, at times, counter-intuitive relationships between online grooming behaviours, risk assessment, police practices, and the actual danger of subsequent abuse in...

    Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
42. Police Integrity Management in Australia

    Global Lessons for Combating Police Misconduct

    By Louise Porter, Tim Prenzler

    Series: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

    In the past two decades, Australia has been the site of major police misconduct scandals and inquiries, leading to reform initiatives at the cutting edge of police integrity management practices. Presenting interviews with key informants and an analysis of key documents, Police Integrity Management...

    Published April 5th 2012 by CRC Press
43. A Certain Share of Low Cunning

    A History of the Bow Street Runners, 1792-1839

    By David J. Cox

    This book provides an account and analysis of the history of the Bow Street Runners, precursors of today's police force. Through a detailed analysis of a wide range of both qualitative and quantitative research data, this book provides a fresh insight into their history, arguing that the use of Bow...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
44. Justice in Transition

    By Anna Eriksson

    This book provides a unique account of the high-profile community-based restorative justice projects in the Republican and Loyalist communities that have emerged with the ending of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Unprecedented new partnerships between Republican communities and the Police Service...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
45. Policing, Surveillance and Social Control

    By Tim Newburn, Stephanie Hayman

    This book reports the result of research carried out in a busy London police station on the role and impact of closed-circuit television (CCTV) in the management and surveillance of suspects - the most thorough example of the use of CCTV by the police in the world. It focuses on the use of CCTV in...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
46. Problem-oriented Policing and Partnerships

    By Karen Bullock, Rosie Erol, Nick Tilley

    Series: Crime Science Series

    This book makes an important contribution to the literature on problem-oriented policing, aiming to distill the British experience of problem-oriented policing. Drawing upon over 500 entries to the Tilley Award since its inception in 1999, the book examines what can be achieved by problem-oriented...

    Published March 19th 2012 by Routledge
47. The Violence of Incarceration

    Edited by Phil Scraton, Jude McCulloch

    Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

    Conceived in the immediate aftermath of the humiliations and killings of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq, of the suicides and hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay and of the disappearances of detainees through extraordinary rendition, this book explores the connections between these shameful events...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
48. The Crime Numbers Game

    Management by Manipulation

    By John A. Eterno, Eli B. Silverman

    Series: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

    In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat. It consisted of computerized data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping coupled with middle management accountability and crime strategy meetings with high-ranking decision makers. While initially credited...

    Published January 30th 2012 by CRC Press
49. A Street Survival Guide for Public Safety Officers

    The Cop Doc's Strategies for Surviving Trauma, Loss, and Terrorism

    By Daniel Rudofossi

    An expansion of Dr. Rudofossi's theory of Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma, this text integrates other models of trauma and loss into a one-of-a-kind intervention model. It offers insider perspectives from police psychologists, police managers, and clinicians describing what police personnel...

    Published January 24th 2012 by CRC Press
50. Security Games

    Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events

    Edited by Colin Bennett, Kevin Haggerty

    Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events – such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup – on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose peculiar and extensive security challenges. The overwhelming imperative is that "...

    Published December 31st 2011 by Routledge