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 …

How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism is and
when it's done right? What sort of expertise do journalists have, and what role should and do …

What does it mean to trust the police? What makes the police legitimate in the eyes of the
policed? What builds trust, legitimacy and cooperation, and what undermines the bond …

Mass media representations of crime, deviance, and disorder have been a perennial cause
of concern. Two competing anxieties can be discerned in public debate, and both are …

One of the first actions of the new Home Secretary was to scrap public confidence as the
single performance indicator of policing in England and Wales. Yet public trust and …

Over the past four decades the fear of crime has become an increasingly significant concern
for criminologists, victimologists, policy makers, politicians, police, the media and the …

Chapters 1 and 2 offered an overview of the emergence and development of victimology,
and outlined some of the conceptual, practical and political problems associated with …

Just as the previous edition of this book was being published in 2006, The Economist ran
one of its more provocative cover stories, asking readers a bold question: Who killed …

This chapter offers when security stands as the justification for public and private action, to
whom, and at what cost. It focuses on to identify several significant paradoxes entailed in the …

Through this study, we shed new light on a key line of inquiry for criminologists: the way the
media influence the public's understanding of crime and justice. We argue for expanding the …