1st Edition
Comparing Police Organizations The Importance of National Contexts
Foreword
Michael Tonry
Preface—Why study policing comparatively?
Wesley G. Skogan
Introduction—Cross-national research: A new frontier for police studies
Sebastian Roché and Jenny Fleming
1. 1. Police worker politics in India, Brazil, and beyond
Beatrice Jauregui
2. 2. Police, non-state actors, and political legitimacy in Central America
José Miguel Cruz
3. 3. Trust in the police and the militarization of law enforcement in Latin America
Hung-En Sung, Bryce Barthuly and Joel Capellan
4. 4. Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe
Sonja Zmerli
5. 5. How national contexts matter: A Study of police-adolescent encounters in France and Germany
Dietrich Oberwittler and Sebastian Roché
6. 6. Legitimacy and cooperation with the police: Examining empirical relationships using data from Africa
Francis D. Boateng, Daniel K. Pryce, and Gassan Abess
7. 7. The inevitable fallibility of policing
Tim Newburn
Biography
Sebastian Roché is a CNRS Research Professor at Sciences Po Grenoble, University of Grenoble-Aples, France, specializing in comparative policing studies. He is the author, with Dietrich Oberwittler, of Police Citizens Relations Across the Word: Comparing Sources and Contexts of Trust and Legitimacy (2018).
Jenny Fleming is Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK and Editor in Chief of Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. Her recent book, The International Handbook of Policing Ethnography was published in 2023.
