The New Policing - Softcover

McLaughlin, Eugene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803989059 ISBN 13: 9780803989054

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

The New Policing provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical issues confronting policing today. It incorporates an overview of traditional approaches to the study of the police with a discussion of current perspectives. The book goes on to examine key themes, including the core purpose of contemporary policework; the reconfiguration of police culture; organizational issues and dilemmas currently confronting the police; the managerial reforms and professional innovations that have been implemented in recent years; and the future of policing, security, and crime control. In offering this discussion of the nature and role of the police, The New Policing illustrates the need to re-examine and re-think the theoretical perspectives that have constituted policing studies. Examining evidence from the UK, the USA, and other western societies, the book promotes and enables an understanding of the cultural and symbolic significance of policing in society.

About this title

About the Author:

Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

Review:

′A lucid, comprehensive and stimulating state-of-the-art analysis of the bewilderingly complex contemporary changes in policing. This will be a standard resource for students and scholars of policing for a long time to come.′ -
Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology
London School of Economics and Political Science

′Highly original, The New Policing is a significant contribution whose implications extend well beyond the British context and reflect on contemporary policing across the English-speaking world.′ -
Pat O’Malley
Canada Research Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Carleton University, Canada

′Deeply informed, penetrating, challenging and readable. Eugene McLaughlin analyses ′the state we′re in′ with respect to policing′ -
P.A.J. Waddington, Professor of Political Sociology
University of Reading, UK

′The landscape of police and policing is rapidly changing. McLaughlin locates this change in the media imagery of policing and in the very real fragmented, global context of contemporary policing. When I got to the end, I wanted the debate to continue. This book is valuable in taking our discussions about policing and policing from a clear documentation of how much has changed in policing England and Wales in the last 20 years.′ -
Elizabeth Stanko

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0803989059
• ISBN 13: 9780803989054
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264