1st Edition
Australian Policing Critical Issues in 21st Century Police Practice
This edited collection brings together leading academics, researchers, and police personnel to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs Australian police education, training, research, policy, and practice. There is a strong history and growth in police education, both in Australia and globally. Recognising and reflecting on the Australian and New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) education and training framework, the range of chapters within the book address a range of 21st-century issues modern police forces face. This book discusses four key themes:
- Education, training, and professional practice: topics include police education, ethics, wellbeing, and leadership
- Organisational approaches and techniques: topics include police discretion, use of force, investigative interviewing, and forensic science
- Operational practices and procedures: topics include police and the media, emergency management, cybercrime, terrorism, and community management
- Working with individuals and groups: topics include mental health, Indigenous communities, young people, hate crime, domestic violence, and working with victims
Australian Policing: Critical Issues in 21st Century Police Practice draws together theoretical and practice debates to ensure this book will be of interest to those who want to join the police, those who are currently training to become a police officer, and those who are currently serving. This book is essential reading for all students, scholars, and researchers engaged with policing and the criminal justice sector.
Contents
Foreword by Michael Fuller
Acknowledgements
Examining Australian Policing in the 21st Century
Section 1: Education, Training, and Professional Practice
- Police Education in Australia
- Becoming a pracademic: The importance of lifelong learning as a police officer in the 21st Century
- Police Leadership in the 21st Century
- The Incorporation of Multidisciplinary Approaches to Enhance Police Communication Strategies
- A Critical Social Justice Issue of Our Time: Enabling Police Wellbeing
- Ethics and Police Practice
- Discretion: the elephant in the room
- Criminal Intelligence in Australia
- Investigative Interviewing and Police Practice
- Forensic Science in Policing
- Police use of force: An examination of Australian Policing
- Working with Others: Future Policing Partnerships
- Policing and Security: critiquing the privatisation story in Australia
- Police, Media, and the Digital age in Australia
- Public health and its interface with police practice in the 21st century
- Emergency Management and the role of state police
- Community Safety, Crime Prevention, and 21st Century policing
- Terrorism and the role of State Police
- Organised and Transnational Crime: The impact on Australian police
- Policing Cybercrime: An Inside Look at Private and Public Cybercrime Investigations
- Australian Police Officers and International Policing Practice
- Mental Health and the Policing Context
- Young people, the Police, and Policing
- Policing Settler Colonial Societies
- Hate Crime: Insights into the context, setting, and prevalence
- Policing Interpersonal Violence
- Policing Domestic and Family Violence
- Police interaction with vulnerable victims
Colin Rogers and Emma Wintle
Melanie Boursnell and Philip Birch
Graham Sunderland and Ian Stewart
Ken Wooden
Rhonda Craven, Herbert W. Marsh, Richard M. Ryan, Paul W.B. Atkins, Theresa Dicke, Jiesi Guo, Peter Gallagher, Brooke Van Zanden, Michael Kennedy, and Philip Birch
Alan Beckley and Michael Kennedy
Section 2: Organisational approaches and techniques
Mark Findlay
Troy Whitford and Shane Lysons-Smith
Daren Jay and Gary Pankhurst
Glenn Porter
Dragana Kesic and Stuart D.M. Thomas
Douglas E. Abrahamson and Jane Goodman-Delahunty
Rick Sarre and Tim Prenzler
Section 3: Operational Practices and Procedures
John Gaffey
Stuart D.M. Thomas
Ian Manock and Simon Robinson
Tim Prenzler and Rick Sarre
Nick Kaldas
Anthony Morgan, Rick Brown, Isabella Voce, and Timothy Cubitt
Alana Maurushat and Hadeel Al-Alosi
Kelly Moylan, Irena Veljanova, Michael Kennedy, and Philip Birch
Section 4: Working with individuals and groups
Erin Kruger
Philip Birch and Louise A. Sicard
Amanda Porter and Chris Cunneen
Philip Birch and Jane L. Ireland
Mark R. Kebbell and Janet M. Evans
Christopher Dowling, Hayley Boxall, and Anthony Morgan
Amber McKinley
Biography
Philip Birch is Associate Professor of Criminology and Policing in the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University, Australia.
Michael Kennedy has been a senior lecturer in the Western Sydney University Bachelor of Policing programme since 2004.
Erin Kruger is a lecturer in criminology and policing at Western Sydney University.
"Birch, Kennedy and Kruger provide a well-balanced book in terms of theory and its integration to the real world of policing. This book serves an incredibly important purpose of not only supporting those who work in the field, but by providing academic institutions that teach policing, law enforcement and public safety courses a useful and meaningful text. It is an essential read for anyone involved in or who has an interest in the field of policing, especially in Australia."
Commissioner Michael Fuller APM, New South Wales Police Force, Australia
