Police Books

New and Published Books

1. Community Policing in Indigenous Communities

   Edited by Mahesh K. Nalla, Graeme R. Newman

   Indigenous communities are typically those that challenge the laws of the nation states of which they have become—often very reluctantly—a part. Around the world, community policing has emerged in many of these regions as a product of their physical environments and cultures. Through a series of...

   Published March 3rd 2013 by CRC Press
2. Introduction to Law Enforcement

   By David H. McElreath, Adrian Doss, Carl J. Jensen, III, Michael Wigginton Jr., Ralph Kennedy, Kenneth R. Winter, Robert E. Mongue, Janice Bounds, J. Michelle Estis-Sumerel

   Modern perspectives of law enforcement are both complex and diverse. They integrate management and statistical analysis functions, public and business administration functions, and applications of psychology, natural science, physical fitness, and marksmanship. They also assimilate theories of...

   Published February 25th 2013 by CRC Press
3. Women, Policing, and Male Violence (Routledge Revivals)

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Jalna Hanmer, Jill Radford, Elizabeth Stanko

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1989, this book focuses on the policing of male violence against women. It is an issue that has been criticised substantially in the past, and the book shows how even police themselves have sometimes admitted that women have received inadequate treatment. The book includes...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Understanding Criminal Justice

   A Critical Introduction

   By Azrini Wahidin, Nicola Carr

   Few subjects provoke as much public fascination and political concern as crime, criminality, criminology, and criminal justice policy and practice. Understanding Criminal Justice seeks to provide students with a critical introduction to the range of theoretical, policy and operational issues faced...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. Criminal Justice

   An Introduction, 2nd Edition

   By Peter Joyce

   This new and expanded edition builds upon material from the highly successful first edition. A comprehensive textbook on the criminal justice system, the book assesses the main theories concerned with the causes of crime (including white-collar and corporate crime), discusses the...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. Stop and Search

   Police Power in Global Context

   Edited by Leanne Weber, Ben Bowling

   Police powers to stop, question and search people in public places, and the way these powers are exercised, is a contentious aspect of police-community relations, and a key issue for criminological and policing scholarship, and for public debate about liberty and security more generally. Whilst...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Racial Profiling

   They Stopped Me Because I'm ------------!

   By Michael L. Birzer

   Many racial minority communities claim profiling occurs frequently in their neighborhoods. Police authorities, for the most part, deny that they engage in racially biased police tactics. A handful of books have been published on the topic, but they tend to offer only anecdotal reports offering...

   Published November 13th 2012 by CRC Press
8. The Routledge Companion to UK Counter-Terrorism

   Edited by Andrew Staniforth, Fraser Sampson

   The United Kingdom has long been an island under siege from terrorists who believe they can advance their aims through acts of violence. Protecting the public from the excesses of extremism remains the primary responsibility of government. For over a century Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 have...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
9. Encyclopedia of Police Science

   2-volume set

   Edited by Jack R. Greene

   In 1996, Garland published the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Police Science, edited by the late William G. Bailey. The work covered all the major sectors of policing in the US. Since then much research has been done on policing issues, and there have been significant changes in techniques...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
10. Handbook of Policing, Ethics and Professional Standards

    Edited by Allyson MacVean, Peter Spindler

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice

    Low confidence in the police and the increasing crime rates during the 1990s led to a series of government initiatives directed at changing both the structure and management of the police service. In 2006 in an attempt to define what a principled police service should resemble, the Home Office...

    Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge