Exploring Policing, Crime and Society: A Brief but Critical Understanding

This short textbook seeks to provide an conceptual, historical, contemporary and social understanding of the 'police', one of the key social and legal institutions of the modern state. Police are an integral part of the criminal justice system. On completion of the book, students will have knowledge of the relationship between police, crime and society; the workings, power and discretion of the police; the relationship between policing, social policy and political ideologies. The book is a brief but critical introduction to the main issues facing police officers in the 21st Century.

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Exploring Policing, Crime and Society: A Brief but Critical Understanding

This short textbook seeks to provide an conceptual, historical, contemporary and social understanding of the 'police', one of the key social and legal institutions of the modern state. Police are an integral part of the criminal justice system. On completion of the book, students will have knowledge of the relationship between police, crime and society; the workings, power and discretion of the police; the relationship between policing, social policy and political ideologies. The book is a brief but critical introduction to the main issues facing police officers in the 21st Century.

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Exploring Policing, Crime and Society: A Brief but Critical Understanding

Exploring Policing, Crime and Society: A Brief but Critical Understanding

by Jason L. Powell
Exploring Policing, Crime and Society: A Brief but Critical Understanding

Exploring Policing, Crime and Society: A Brief but Critical Understanding

by Jason L. Powell

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This short textbook seeks to provide an conceptual, historical, contemporary and social understanding of the 'police', one of the key social and legal institutions of the modern state. Police are an integral part of the criminal justice system. On completion of the book, students will have knowledge of the relationship between police, crime and society; the workings, power and discretion of the police; the relationship between policing, social policy and political ideologies. The book is a brief but critical introduction to the main issues facing police officers in the 21st Century.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781619420014
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 01/01/2012
Series: Social Perspectives of Aging Series
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Chapter 1 Introduction - What is Policing? Conceptual and Historical Context 1

Chapter 2 Policing, Culture and Discretion 9

Chapter 3 Community Policing v Militarized Policing 15

Chapter 4 Accountability and Powers of the Police: The Case of the UK 19

Chapter 5 The New Right and Policing - Essential Context 29

Chapter 6 'New Labor' and the Zero Tolerance Approach to Policing 35

Chapter 7 Conclusion: Organized Crime and Policing 41

Reference 47

Index 51

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