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 …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

The British police occupy a unique position as the first to be created under representative
government, and one which for a long period was regarded as an exemplar of civility. In …

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

The 'cult of masculinity'has received much attention as a persistent and negative feature of
police culture, with its impacts repeatedly being drawn upon to make sense of women's lack …

'Noaks and Wincup's book is useful primarily to criminology students for its clarity, use of
illustrative case studies, exercises and end-of-chapter suggested further reading'-The …

At the heart of policing is a tension. On the one hand, police in liberal democratic societies
are custodians of the state's monopoly of legitimate force. On the other, they wield that …

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 …

Books are very much a product of the time in which they are written. This particular text was
conceived at a time in which the relatively young (sub) discipline of victimology, and the …

Hate crime encompasses numerous themes that have formed a central feature of
contemporary social scientific enquiry, including marginalisation, victimisation and …