ABSTRACT

This new edition of the Handbook of Policing updates and expands the highly successful first edition, and now includes a completely new chapter on policing and forensics. It provides a comprehensive, but highly readable overview of policing in the UK, and is an essential reference point, combining the expertise of leading academic experts on policing and policing practitioners themselves.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction: understanding policing

part I|102 pages

Policing in Comparative and Historical Perspective

chapter 2|30 pages

Models of policing

chapter I 3|25 pages

Policing before the police

chapter 5|25 pages

Policing since 1945

part II|222 pages

The Context of Policing

chapter 8|22 pages

Policing in Scotland

chapter 10|29 pages

The police organisation

chapter 11|28 pages

Police cultures

chapter 12|32 pages

Police powers

chapter 13|24 pages

Policing and the media

part III|270 pages

Doing Policing

chapter 19|25 pages

Drugs policing

chapter 20|31 pages

Policing fraud and organised crime

chapter 21|27 pages

Policing terror

part IV|234 pages

Themes and Debates in Policing

chapter 24|24 pages

Gender and policing

chapter 25|27 pages

Policing and ethics

chapter 26|32 pages

The accountability of policing

chapter 28|34 pages

Policing and forensic science

chapter 30|17 pages

The future of policing