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'God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and
resilience are a tonic' Libby Purves, Times Literary Supplement In
February 1919, London's first women police officers took to the
streets of the city. They battled entrenched gender stereotypes,
institutional inequality, sexual harassment and assaults
disturbingly familiar to those affecting today's #MeToo generation
of modern women. Female officers, facing resentment from male
colleagues, were expected to do little more than 'Make the tea, luv
. . .' and were charged with the sole task of looking after women
and children who fell into police hands. Yet, in the course of a
century, policewomen have won the equality they demanded, overcome
sexism and prejudice, rejected harassment and sexual assaults and
smashed through the glass ceiling to lead, rather than follow,
their male colleagues. One hundred years on from those first Women
Police Constables, a woman, Cressida Dick, holds the most powerful
position in British policing, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
Voices from the Blue tells the story of the hundred years of
service of female police officers within the Metropolitan Police
through the voices of the women who fought their way towards
equality and won the respect of both their colleagues and the
public. The authors have interviewed hundreds of former and serving
policewomen and with the co-operation of the Metropolitan Police
and the Women's Police Association now have access to the files and
stories of thousands of former officers who served over the past
hundred years. Those police archives, together with material held
by the National Archives and private libraries, provide a detailed
and fascinating oral history of the challenges women police
officers faced down the years.
From grassroots conflicts to great power relations, this book
explores some of the key concepts, methodologies, and dilemmas of
researching Asia-Pacific affairs. The book deals with key questions
about the Asia Pacific: Why should we study policy from the ground
up? What are the human considerations for societies in conflict?
Why is regionalism important and how do global powers play a role?
Should Asia-Pacific researchers embrace the design-based revolution
in the social sciences? Muddy Boots and Smart Suits is for
students, scholars, and policymakers in the region looking for a
new way to understand local, regional, and global security
challenges.
Exporting British Policing is a comprehensive study of British
military policing in liberated Europe during the Second World War.
Preventing and detecting thefts, receiving and profiteering
together with the maintenance of order in its broadest sense are,
in the peacetime world, generally confided to the police. However,
the Second World War witnessed the use of civilian police to create
a detective division of the British Army's Military Police (SIB),
and the use of British civilian police, alongside American police,
as Civil Affairs Officers to restore order and civil
administration. Part One follows the men of the SIB from their
pre-war careers to confrontations with mafiosi and their
investigations into widespread organised crime and war crimes
during which they were constantly hampered by being seen as a
Cinderella service commanded by 'temporary gentlemen'. Part Two
focuses on the police officers who served in Civil Affairs who
tended to come from higher ranks in the civilian police than those
who served in SIB. During the war they occupied towns with the
assault troops, and then sought to reorganise local administration;
at the end of the war in the British Zones of Germany and Austria
they sought to turn both new Schutzmanner and police veterans of
the Third Reich into British Bobbies. Using memoirs and anecdotes,
Emsley critically draws on the subjective experiences of these
police personnel, assessing the successes of these wartime efforts
for preventing and investigating crimes such as theft and
profiteering and highlighting the importance of historical
precedent, given current difficulties faced by international
policing organizations in enforcing democratic police reform in
post-conflict societies.
Law Enforcement Communication: Essential Skills for Solving Crimes,
Managing Difficult People, and Improving Officer Safety helps law
enforcement officers improve their communication skills with
diverse populations and difficult people. The book is founded on
the premise that the better an officer is at communicating with
others, the safer and more effective the officer will be in all
areas of law enforcement. The skills in this book apply equally to
all law enforcement professionals, regardless of their rank,
assignment, or responsibilities. Officers rely on good human
relations skills to deescalate dangerous confrontations, facilitate
cooperation, and solve crimes. Readers will learn the skills and
attitudes necessary to build trust and rapport, resolve conflict,
manage emotions, gain valuable information, and deal more
effectively with difficult people. Additional chapters examine
persuasive communication, emotional intelligence, and the
importance of leadership in creating a culture of communication
excellence. Law Enforcement Communication is an enlightening and
intellectual resource well suited for courses in policing and law
enforcement. It also provides a valuable resource for working law
enforcement professionals, trainers, or anyone else interested in
improving their personal and career success.
What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our
criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural
conclusion? Adam C. Malka raises this disturbing possibility
through a gripping look at the origins of modern policing in the
influential hub of Baltimore during and after slavery's final
decades. He argues that America's new professional police forces
and prisons were developed to expand, not curb, the reach of white
vigilantes, and are best understood as a uniformed wing of the
gangs that controlled free black people by branding them-and
treating them-as criminals. The post-Civil War triumph of liberal
ideals thus also marked a triumph of an institutionalized belief in
black criminality. Mass incarceration may be a recent phenomenon,
but the problems that undergird the ""new Jim Crow"" are very, very
old. As Malka makes clear, a real reckoning with this national
calamity requires not easy reforms but a deeper, more radical
effort to overcome the racial legacies encoded into the very DNA of
our police institutions.
Drawing from the author's fieldwork and his personal experiences in
law enforcement, The Militarization of the Police? Ideology Versus
Reality employs social science analysis to refute claims that the
police in the United States have become militarized. Readers are
exposed to research, analysis, and personal narratives that provide
insight into the public perception of law enforcement and the
behind-the-scenes realities that few experience outside of police
work. The book begins by critically examining assertions by Peter
Kraska, a professor, and by Radley Balko, a journalist, that the
police have become militarized. Later chapters reveal the reality
of narcotics raids and the problem with the War on Drugs, examine
how the ACLU has criticized SWAT teams in the media, and explore
the intertwining of race, poverty, and drugs. Readers gain new
perspectives on the riots in Ferguson and in Baltimore through the
eyes of law enforcement officials. The book additionally describes
real-world examples of the use of excessive force and proposed
non-violent alternatives. In employing a social science perspective
to the complexities of law enforcement in modern society, The
Militarization of the Police? Ideology Versus Reality, is an ideal
text for courses in criminal justice, law enforcement, and social
science.
In 1912 the average Irish Constable was a generally useful member
of society, filling in numerous forms in the role of minor
bureaucrat, and pursuing petty criminals. He had little to do with
firearms. By 1922 he had become an outcast to many and a friend to
few. Those who thought his treatment unjust were generally
unwilling to take the risk of saying so. This is the story of how
an average country policeman was caught up in the swirl of
political movements which led to murderous violence. I look at the
social and political contexts of historical events. Caught between
the hammer of IRA violence and the anvil of government obduracy,
the regular constables became sacrifices to political expediency.
Using the police career of John Hennigan as a framework, this book
follows public events in chronological order while bringing to mind
the little details of everyday live.
Individuals with developmental disorders are seven times more
likely than other people to come into contact with police and their
responses to encounters with the law may not always be socially
appropriate. How can the needs and responses of people with autism
spectrum disorders be reconciled with the duties of the police to
serve and protect the community? In this book, private investigator
and autism advocate Dennis Debbaudt provides essential information
for both groups. He explains how typical manifestations of autism
spectrum disorders, such as running away, unsteadiness, impulsive
behavior or failure to respond, may be misunderstood by law
enforcement professionals, with serious consequences. For
individuals with ASDs, he offers advice on how to behave in
encounters with police and other law enforcement professionals.
Aimed at raising awareness and facilitating communication between
people with autism and law enforcement professionals, this
much-needed book will be a valuable resource for both communities.
In order to protect and defend citizens, the foundational concepts
of fairness and equality must be adhered to within any criminal
justice system. When this is not the case, accountability of
authorities should be pursued to maintain the integrity and pursuit
of justice. Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, and Discrimination
in the Criminal Justice System is an authoritative reference source
for the latest scholarly material on social problems involving
victimization of minorities and police accountability. Presenting
relevant perspectives on a global and cross-cultural scale, this
book is ideally designed for researchers, professionals,
upper-level students, and practitioners involved in the fields of
criminal justice and corrections.
In the Great Terror of 1937 38 more than a million Soviet citizens
were arrested or killed for political crimes they didn't commit.
What kind of people carried out this violent purge, and what
motivated them? This book opens up the world of the Soviet
perpetrator for the first time. Focusing on Kuntsevo, the Moscow
suburb where Stalin had a dacha, Alexander Vatlin shows how
Stalinism rewarded local officials for inventing enemies. Agents of
Terror reveals stunning, detailed evidence from archives available
for a limited time in the 1990s. Going beyond the central figures
of the terror, Vatlin takes readers into the offices and
interrogation rooms of secret police at the district level. Spurred
at times by ambition, and at times by fear for their own lives,
agents rushed to fulfill quotas for arresting ""enemies of the
people"" even when it meant fabricating the evidence. Vatlin pulls
back the curtain on a Kafkaesque system, forcing readers to
reassess notions of historical agency and moral responsibility in
Stalin-era crimes.
Chapter One summarises research on the seismic performance of air
traffic control (ATC) towers, discusses their shortcomings and puts
forward recommendations for future studies. Chapter Two covers the
construction of an airport for the capital of Germany that has an
erratic history dating back to the early nineties. During the long
planning period, the employment impacts of a major airport played
an important role in the public dialogue. This chapter sets out how
a scenario technique was used to calculate employment effects
related to this major airport project. Chapter Three analyses
airport security in the Czech Republic regarding the Safety Risk
Management (SRM) setting including the Safety Risk Assessment (SRA)
with respect to economic aspects of the issue. The chapter also
includes statistical backstage pointing to the topicality of this
issue. Chapter Four uses the case of Atlanta Hartsfield/Jackson
International Airport (ATL) to illustrate the links between airport
capacity management and passenger satisfaction measured as airlines
on-time performance. Chapter Five covers the potential benefits
from using Linked Data technologies in emergency scenarios and
presents the authors applications for improved emergency response.
This fresh edition of Satish Sekar's classic work brings events up
to date as at 2017 and includes matters that the author was
prevented from publishing sooner. Among other things it deals with
the collapse of the 2011 trial of police officers and others
concerning the original miscarriage of justice in this case and in
a new Epilogue calls for a Truth and Justice Commission. The author
shows how this extreme miscarriage of justice destroyed families,
divided communities and undermined confidence in the criminal
justice system. The book takes the reader from the sadistic killing
of Lynette White in Cardiff in 1988, via the subsequent
investigation and trial to the aftermath of the folding of the 2011
trial over 'lost' documents that later materialised. But above all
it deals with the hard scientific facts of the first vindication
case of the DNA-age. Based on a 30-year quest for justice.
Scrutinises the case from day one. Rejects moves to 'shelve' this
troubling chain of events. Calls for a Truth and Justice
Commission.
Across the Caribbean, crime is arguably the leading social problem
facing the small tourism and foreign exchange dependent countries
that make up the region. In Crime and Security in Trinidad and
Tobago Drs Seepersad and Williams, both criminologists, offer an
in-depth and comprehensive examination of crime in the twin island
republic. Moving away from a reliance on perception and using
empirical data and research, they analyse the justice system;
criminal victimization; juveniles in the criminal justice system;
gangs and gang-related crime and violence; the risk factors
relevant for understanding crime, and the response of the populace
to crime and provide a substantive and sound basis for
understanding the key issues. Buttressed by several illustrations
presenting the most up to date crime statistics for Trinidad and
Tobago as well as reference to most of the available local,
Caribbean and international sources of scholarly work, this work
provides a platform for policy development as well as several
strategies and solutions to reduce crime. Undoubtedly of value to
criminologists, police personnel at all levels and those involved
in the administration of justice and national security, Crime and
Security in Trinidad and Tobago presents the example and foundation
upon which all Caribbean countries could model the treatment of
this crippling ill.
Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social
effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and
London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled
to regulate and control crime and offending during the Blitz.
Focusing predominantly on Liverpool, it investigates how the
authorities and citizens anticipated the aerial war, and how the
State and local authorities proposed to contain and protect a
population made unruly, potentially deviant and drawn into a new
landscape of criminal regulation. Drawing on a range of
contemporary sources, the book throws into relief today's
experiences of war and terror, the response in crime and deviancy,
and the experience and practices of preparedness in anticipation of
terrible threats. The authors reveal how everyday activities became
criminalised through wartime regulations and explore how other
forms of crime such as looting, theft and drunkenness took on a new
and frightening aspect. Crime, Regulation and Control during the
Blitz offers a critical contribution to how we understand crime,
security, and regulation in both the past and the present.
Exporting British Policing is a comprehensive study of British
military policing in liberated Europe during the Second World War.
Preventing and detecting thefts, receiving and profiteering
together with the maintenance of order in its broadest sense are,
in the peacetime world, generally confided to the police. However,
the Second World War witnessed the use of civilian police to create
a detective division of the British Army's Military Police (SIB),
and the use of British civilian police, alongside American police,
as Civil Affairs Officers to restore order and civil
administration. Part One follows the men of the SIB from their
pre-war careers to confrontations with mafiosi and their
investigations into widespread organised crime and war crimes
during which they were constantly hampered by being seen as a
Cinderella service commanded by 'temporary gentlemen'. Part Two
focuses on the police officers who served in Civil Affairs who
tended to come from higher ranks in the civilian police than those
who served in SIB. During the war they occupied towns with the
assault troops, and then sought to reorganise local administration;
at the end of the war in the British Zones of Germany and Austria
they sought to turn both new Schutzmanner and police veterans of
the Third Reich into British Bobbies. Using memoirs and anecdotes,
Emsley critically draws on the subjective experiences of these
police personnel, assessing the successes of these wartime efforts
for preventing and investigating crimes such as theft and
profiteering and highlighting the importance of historical
precedent, given current difficulties faced by international
policing organizations in enforcing democratic police reform in
post-conflict societies.
The Victorians called him 'Bobby' after Sir Robert Peel, the Home
Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829. The
generations that followed came to regard the force in which he
served as 'the best police in the world'. If twenty-first century
observers sometimes take a more jaundiced view of his efforts, the
blue-helmeted, unarmed policeman remains an icon of Britishness,
and a symbol of the relatively peaceful nature of our social
evolution. In The Great British Bobby, Clive Emsley traces the
development of Britain's forces of law and order from the earliest
watchmen and constables of the pre-modern period to the police
service of today. He examines in detail such milestones in police
history as the establishment of the Bow Street Runners in the
1740s, the Police Acts of 1839, the introduction of women police
officers during the First World War, and the Macpherson Report of
1999 into the death of Stephen Lawrence. Threaded through his
narrative are case-studies of real-life Bobbies, drawn from police
archives, evoking the day-to-day reality of the policeman's lot
over two and a half centuries: the boredom of patrolling on foot in
all weathers, the threats to life and limb of policing rough areas,
and the diverse historical challenges of industrial unrest, the
growth of cities, the arrival of the motor car and the ethnic
diversification of society. From Robert Grubb, patrolling the mean
streets of Georgian London with rattle and cudgel, to Norwell
Roberts, the first black officer to be appointed to the
Metropolitan Police, The Great British Bobby presents a cast of
mostly honest coppers performing a testing role to the best of
their ability. A distinguished historian and criminologist, Clive
Emsley is ideally placed to tell - candidly but affectionately -
the fascinating story of Britain's police force. The Great British
Bobby is nothing less than a social history of Britain over the
last 250 years, viewed through the prism of one of its most
remarkable and distinctive institutions.
Police psychology has become an integral part of present-day police
agencies, providing support in the areas of personnel assessment,
individual and organisational intervention, consultation, and
operational assistance. Research-based resources contribute to
those efforts by shedding light on best practices, identifying
recent research and developments, and calling attention to
important challenges and growth areas that remain.Police Psychology
and Its Growing Impact on Modern Law Enforcement emphasises key
elements of police psychology as it relates to current issues and
challenges in law enforcement and police agencies. Focusing on
topics relevant to assessment and evaluation of applicants and
incumbent officers, clinical intervention and prevention, employee
wellness and support, operational consultation, and emerging trends
and developments, this edited publication is an essential reference
source for practising police psychologists, researchers,
graduate-level students, and law enforcement executives.
The use of extra-territorial intelligence is growing among
security, border, and public agencies. Internationally, rapidly
evolving efforts to tackle transnational crime entail the exchange
of intelligence across jurisdictions and state borders as well as
the 'linking' of law enforcement operations. This book provides a
number of different perspectives from across Europe, Australasia
and Canada to examine recent cooperation experiences and the
challenges faced in practice. The book brings together scholars
from a range of legal and criminological fields to examine the
legal imperatives and social parameters that shape international
police and justice cooperation and highlights the importance of
both trust and clear legal rules to ensure effective cooperation.
It focuses on areas where cooperation is now mandated, but where
significant issues are raised, including the international and
regional methods of information and intelligence exchange and
challenges to human rights protection; the coordination of
international and regional exchange of evidence, such as forensic
bioinformation; police cooperation in international investigations
and the added value of formalising investigative strategies across
jurisdictions regionally and internationally and the operation,
accountability and legitimacy of organisations and institutions of
'cooperation' in law enforcement and specific international
policing 'missions'.
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