The New PolicingSAGE, 16 лист. 2006 р. - 264 стор. The New Policing provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical issues confronting policing today. It incorporates an overview of traditional approaches to the study of the police with a discussion of current perspectives. The book goes on to examine key themes, including: - the core purpose of contemporary policework; - the reconfiguration of police culture; - organisational issues and dilemmas currently confronting the police; - the managerial reforms and professional; innovations that have been implemented in recent years; - the future of policing, security and crime control. In offering this discussion of the nature and role of the police, The New Policing illustrates the need to re-examine and re-think the theoretical perspectives that have constituted policing studies. Examining evidence from the United Kingdom, the United States and other western societies, the book promotes and enables an understanding of the cultural and symbolic significance of policing in society. This ground-breaking text has been constructed to ensure that it touches on all the key issues that any course on police and policing will cover. It is an essential purchase for all students of policing and criminal justice, and academics and professionals working in this field. |
З цієї книги
Результати 1-5 із 9
... Tom Riley: from delinquent to 'cop killer' The Cultural Construction of the Police. List of Figures.
... Tom Riley, the embodiment of a new generation of reckless young criminals threatening the nation. Basil Dearden was in no. 12 THE NEW POLICING.
... boys, keeps an eye on property. When crimes take place his investigations are soon taken over. Figure 1.1a PC George Dixon: the iconic constable Figure 1.1b Tom Riley confronting Dixon: from delinquent to 'cop. 14 THE NEW POLICING.
... Tom Riley and his sidekick 'Spud' are constructed to exemplify a very different youthful masculinity to that of the respectable PC Mitchell. The voiceover tells us that: These restless and ill-adjusted youngsters have produced a type of ...
... Riley's attempt to involve them in their plans: 'What happens if you get done? You little layabouts are all the same. You'd scream your 'ead off. Then the bogeys get on to me. Stick to gas meters sonny'. All Tom Riley has to depend on ...
Зміст
1 | |
26 | |
49 | |
New Perspectives | 87 |
Chapter 5 Policing Crime and Disorder | 115 |
Chapter 6 Police Culture | 143 |
Chapter 7 Police Governance | 172 |
Chapter 8 Policing the New Terrorism | 197 |
References | 221 |
Index | 241 |