The fifth edition of the popular and highly acclaimed The Politics of the Police has been
completely revised, expanded, and updated to take in recent changes in the law, policy, and …

In this comprehensive study, Jean-Paul Brodeur examines the diversity of the policing web.
Policing agencies such as criminal investigation units, intelligence services, private security …

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer. It
incorporates the significant increase in knowledge about the work of prison officer since the …

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an
authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to …

Police work involves substantial emotional labor by officers, who must control their own
emotional displays and those of citizens, who often are encountered at their worst—injured …

This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry works, and one of the few
empirical studies that investigates the off street industry in Britain. The book seeks to …

This article considers the relevance of the policing literature to the work of prison officers. It
explores the role of discretion in the distribution of privileges in prison, the results of an …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for thinking about the work of prison
officers. It is a well-known maxim that relationships are 'at the heart'of prison life (Home …

The second edition of Private Policing details the substantial involvement of private agents
and organisations involved in policing beyond the public police. It develops a taxonomy of …

What is it about crime that makes itmen's work'? Can we imagine masculinity without crime?
This is the first book of its kind to bring contributors from three continents together to examine …