ABSTRACT

Contemporary policing is developing rapidly and is becoming increasingly professionalized. For practitioners National Occupational Standards, Skills for Justice and the the new PDLP (Police Development and Leaning Programme) have brought a new emphasis on skills, standards and knowledge. Training for police officers and civilian staff working in policing is being significantly upgraded. At the same time it has become more rigorous, with universities and other higher educational institutions playing an increasingly important part in police training - as well as expanding the range of policing courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Key features:

  • approximately 300 entries (of between 500 and 1500 words) on key terms and concepts arranged alphabetically
  • designed to meet the needs of both students and practitioners
  • entries include summary definition, main text and key texts and sources
  • takes full account of emerging occupational and Skills for Justice criteria
  • edited by the UK's leading academic expert on policing and the Chief Executive of the National Policing Improvement Agency
  • Entries contributed by leading academic and practitioners in policing

letter |10 pages

A

chapter |3 pages

Accountability and Governance

chapter |2 pages

Anti-Social Behaviour

chapter |2 pages

Arrest

chapter |1 pages

Attrition

chapter |1 pages

Audit Commission

letter |14 pages

B

chapter |2 pages

Bail

chapter |1 pages

Basic Command Units (BCUs)

chapter |1 pages

Beat

chapter |2 pages

Best Value

chapter |1 pages

Bichard Inquiry

chapter |1 pages

Black Police Associations

chapter |1 pages

Bow Street ‘Runners’

chapter |2 pages

Broken Windows

chapter |1 pages

Burglary

chapter |1 pages

Byford Report

letter |50 pages

C

chapter |2 pages

Call Management

chapter |2 pages

Caution

chapter |1 pages

Chief Constables

chapter |3 pages

Child Abuse

chapter |1 pages

Civilianization

chapter |1 pages

Civil Liability

chapter |1 pages

Clear-Up Rates

chapter |2 pages

Code of Conduct/Ethics

chapter |1 pages

Colonial Policing

chapter |2 pages

Community and Race Relations

chapter |1 pages

Community Policing

chapter |1 pages

Community Safety

chapter |1 pages

Compstat

chapter |1 pages

Computer-Aided Despatch (CAD)

chapter |1 pages

Constables

chapter |2 pages

Constabulary Independence

chapter |1 pages

Consultation

chapter |1 pages

Coroners

chapter |2 pages

Corruption (Police)

chapter |1 pages

Covert Policing

chapter |2 pages

Crime

chapter |1 pages

Crime and Disorder Act 1998

chapter |2 pages

Crime Mapping

chapter |2 pages

Crime Reduction

chapter |1 pages

Crime Scene Examiners (CSES)

chapter |3 pages

Crime Statistics

chapter |2 pages

Criminal Investigation

chapter |1 pages

Critical Incidents

chapter |1 pages

Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)

chapter |1 pages

Custody

chapter |1 pages

Cybercrimes

letter |21 pages

D

chapter |1 pages

Defence Lawyers

chapter |1 pages

Defendants

chapter |1 pages

Detectives

chapter |2 pages

Discretion

chapter |1 pages

Dispersal Orders

chapter |2 pages

Dixon of Dock Green

chapter |1 pages

DNA Profiling

chapter |1 pages

Doctrine

chapter |1 pages

Domestic Violence

chapter |2 pages

Drug Education and Prevention

chapter |2 pages

Drugs and Policing

letter |8 pages

E

chapter |2 pages

Entrapment

chapter |1 pages

Ethics in Policing

chapter |1 pages

European Network of Policewomen

chapter |1 pages

Europol

chapter |2 pages

Evidence

letter |14 pages

F

chapter |2 pages

Family Liaison

chapter |1 pages

Fear of Crime

chapter |2 pages

Fingerprints

chapter |1 pages

Firearms (Police Use of)

chapter |1 pages

Force (Police Use of)

chapter |2 pages

Forensic Investigation

chapter |1 pages

Frankpledge

chapter |1 pages

Fraud and Policing

letter |9 pages

G

chapter |1 pages

Gay Police Association

chapter |2 pages

Gender And Policing

chapter |2 pages

Geographic(al) Profiling

chapter |1 pages

Glidewell

chapter |1 pages

Graded Response

letter |12 pages

H

chapter |2 pages

Hate Crime

chapter |1 pages

Home Office

chapter |2 pages

Hotspots

chapter |1 pages

Hue and Cry

chapter |2 pages

Human Rights

chapter |2 pages

Human Trafficking

letter |15 pages

I

chapter |2 pages

Identity Theft

chapter |1 pages

Independent Advisory Groups

chapter |2 pages

Institutional Racism

chapter |2 pages

Intelligence-LED Policing

chapter |1 pages

Interagency Policing

chapter |1 pages

Interpol

chapter |1 pages

Investigative Interviewing

letter |2 pages

J

chapter |2 pages

‘Judges’ Rules’

letter |4 pages

L

chapter |2 pages

Leadership

chapter |1 pages

Legitimacy

chapter |1 pages

Less Lethal Weapons

letter |13 pages

M

chapter |2 pages

Mass Private Property

chapter |1 pages

Media and Policing

chapter |2 pages

Mentally Disordered Offenders

chapter |2 pages

Metropolitan Police/New Police

chapter |1 pages

Military Policing

chapter |1 pages

Ministry of Justice

chapter |2 pages

Models of Policing

chapter |2 pages

Murder

letter |11 pages

N

chapter |2 pages

National Security

chapter |1 pages

Neighbourhood Policing

chapter |1 pages

Neighbourhood Wardens

chapter |1 pages

Neighbourhood Watch

chapter |2 pages

New Public Management (NPM)

letter |3 pages

O

chapter |2 pages

Offender Profiling

chapter |1 pages

Organized Crime

letter |45 pages

P

chapter |2 pages

Paramilitary Policing

chapter |1 pages

Patrol

chapter |1 pages

Patten Report

chapter |1 pages

Peel, Sir Robert

chapter |2 pages

Plural Policing

chapter |2 pages

Police Act 1964

chapter |1 pages

Police and Justice Act 2006

chapter |2 pages

Police Authorities

chapter |2 pages

Police Culture

chapter |1 pages

Police Federation

chapter |2 pages

Police National Computer

chapter |1 pages

Police Performance Indicators

chapter |3 pages

Police powers

chapter |1 pages

Police Property

chapter |1 pages

Police Reform Act 2002

chapter |2 pages

Policing

chapter |3 pages

Politics (Police Involvement)

chapter |1 pages

Pornography (Child)

chapter |2 pages

Private policing

chapter |2 pages

Problem-Oriented Policing

chapter |1 pages

Professionalization

chapter |1 pages

Prostitution

chapter |1 pages

Public Attitudes to the Police

chapter |1 pages

Public Order

letter |17 pages

R

chapter |2 pages

Racially Motivated Offending

chapter |1 pages

Racial Profiling

chapter |2 pages

Rank Structure

chapter |1 pages

Reassurance Policing

chapter |1 pages

Recruitment

chapter |1 pages

Right of Silence

chapter |2 pages

Roads (Policing Of)

chapter |1 pages

Rowan and Mayne

letter |23 pages

S

chapter |2 pages

Scarman Inquiry

chapter |2 pages

Schengen

chapter |1 pages

Scotland (Policing)

chapter |2 pages

Security

chapter |2 pages

Sexual Offences/Sexualviolence

chapter |1 pages

Sheehy Inquiry

chapter |1 pages

Signal Crimes

chapter |1 pages

Skills for Justice

chapter |1 pages

Special Branch (SB)

chapter |1 pages

Special Constabulary

chapter |1 pages

Specialist Squads

chapter |2 pages

Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

chapter |1 pages

Stop and Search

chapter |2 pages

Street Crime

chapter |1 pages

Surveillance

letter |8 pages

T

chapter |1 pages

Technology and Policing

chapter |2 pages

Terrorism

chapter |1 pages

Training (Police)

chapter |2 pages

Transnational Policing

letter |2 pages

U

chapter |2 pages

Unit beat policing (UBP)

letter |5 pages

V

chapter |2 pages

Victim and Witness Support

chapter |1 pages

Vigilantism

chapter |2 pages

Volume Crime

letter |2 pages

W

chapter |2 pages

Warrants

letter |3 pages

Y

chapter |3 pages

Youth and Policing

letter |2 pages

Z

chapter |2 pages

Zero-Tolerance Policing (ZTP)