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 …

The Culture of Control charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that
have occurred in Britain and America over the last 25 years. It then explains these …

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 …

The challenges of police governance and accountability have been rising up the agenda of
policy makers, police chiefs, NGOs at local, national and international levels, diverse …

Despite popular and official concern about an apparent increase in vigilante activity in the
United Kingdom, there has been little serious attempt to conceptualize vigilantism. This …

The book considers recent trends in the local governance of crime. It examines the growing
appeal to 'community'and 'partnerships' in criminal justice policy and the involvement of …

This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and
promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental …

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 …

Public confidence in policing has received much attention in recent years, but few studies
outside of the United States have examined the sociological and social–psychological …

Public confidence in policing is receiving increasing attention from UK social scientists and
policy‐makers. The criminal justice system relies on legitimacy and consent to an extent …