Policing Books

New and Published Books

1. Police Custody

   Governance, Legitimacy and Reform in the Criminal Justice Process

   By Layla Skinns

   Police custody acts as an important gateway to the criminal justice process. Much is at stake here for both staff and suspects as what happens in police custody can have important consequences further down the line. This book offers a timely contribution to research on police custody, which has...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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 May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. Rethinking Policing and Justice

   Exploring Alternatives to Law Enforcement

   Edited by Luis Fernandez, Laura Huey

   It has become somewhat axiomatic to refer to the police as the ‘gatekeepers’ of the criminal justice system and thus as a mechanism for the provision of justice. And yet, when we conceptualize the police in this way, what is often taken for granted is the exact nature of that role and its larger...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses

   Global Challenges

   Edited by Duncan Chappell

   Series: Police Practice and Research

   According to the World Health Organisation during their lifetime more than one quarter of all individuals will develop one or more mental or behavioural disorders. Given prevalence data like this it is not surprising that wherever they reside on the planet many persons suffering from a mental...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
7. Policing Developing Democracies

   Edited by Mercedes S. Hinton, Tim Newburn

   There are enormous challenges in establishing policing systems in young democracies. Such societies typically have a host of unresolved pressing social, economic and political questions that impinge on policing and the prospects for reform. There are a series of hugely important questions arising...

   Published September 21st 2008 by Routledge
8. Plural Policing

   A Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Trevor Jones, Tim Newburn

   Policing is changing rapidly and radically. An increasingly complex array of public, private and municipal bodies - as well as public police forces - are engaged in the provision of regulation and security. Consequently, it is difficult to think of security provision primarily in terms of what the...

   Published March 29th 2006 by Routledge