Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice (Hardcover)

Innovative Possibilities: Global Policing Research and Practice brings together observations that reflect upon the state of police (and policing) across the globe and associated forms of policing scholarship with inputs from Africa, Australia, South and Central America, China, Europe, and the USA. Following the introduction the book begins with a review of the nature of the relationship between policing research and practice with the Victoria Police in Australia and moves on to Britain where the focus is on how the National Improvement Strategy for Policing (NISP) is developing and how research is being used to design, define, monitor, and develop its strategic interventions using a series of case studies. In the United States the complex American terrain of the police is examined -- in particular this chapter examines how crime statistics are used to rationalize, justify, and account for their actions. In Latin America a comprehensive review of research on police reform in Latin America during the last two decades is given. Africa provides a complex and diverse social terrain which needs to be understood in relation to its plural policing landscape. Police scholarship in China looks at the historical development and current status of police scholarship in China, together with the emerging issues arising from it. The overarching concern of all these reflections is with bridging the deep seated tensions that exist between scholarship and practice within policing across the globe and the call for a new relationship of mutual respect that is committed to exploring better ways of governing security.This book was published as a special issue of Police Practice and Research.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Police Practice and Research
Release date:	February 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Les Johnston
Series editors:	Dilip K Das
Editors:	Clifford Shearing
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	130
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-61835-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Emergency services > Police & security services Promotions
LSN:	0-415-61835-5
Barcode:	9780415618359

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