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 …

This book has been with me for some time. Its inspiration is twofold. The first is a desire to
consolidate the theoretical gains of the Left Realist criminology of the last two decades …

Although police researchers have often assumed that perceptions of police effectiveness
enhance police legitimacy, there has been very little empirical support for this assumption …

Most existing historiographies of colonial and post-colonial policing in Ghana have focused
nearly exclusively on providing a basic understanding of managerial issues—that is …

We live in the age of international crime. No longer is crime an issue for large cities or even
national governments. Identity theft, illegal immigration, drug trafficking, terrorist attacks …

A look at the ambiguous experience of black security force personnel in white minority ruled
colonial Southern Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe]. Making use of archival documents, period …

This article examines the role of citizens' contact with police and their assessments of
officers' corruption in police in India. More importantly, we examine whether police …

Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a
quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century …

This article examines the ways in which colonial policing and punishment of Indigenous
peoples evolved as an inherent part of the colonial state-building process on the connected …

This article explores the effects of colonialism on policing in Ghana, and suggests ways of
improving police legitimacy. Ghana experienced a century-long colonization by the British …