Policing in France

Jacques de Maillard is Professor of Political Science at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, and Director of CESDIP (a research center affiliated to the CNRS, the French Ministry of Justice, the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, and the University of Cergy). He is a noted scholar in the area of police organization and management, local governance of crime, police reform, and private policing. He has conducted research in both France and the UK. He has been a visiting scholar at several American and British universities. His books on French policing include Polices Comparées (2017) and Sociologie de la Police: Politiques, Organisations, Réformes (2015).Wesley G. Skogan is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University in the USA. His research focuses on policing, community responses to crime, victimization, disorder, and fear of crime. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology and was a Senior Fellow of the Center for Crime, Communities, and Culture of the Open Societies Institute. He organized the Committee on Police Policies and Practices for the National Research Council and served as its chairman. He is the co-author (with Kathleen Frydl) of the committee report, Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing: The Evidence. Earlier he spent two years at the National Institute of Justice as a visiting fellow. In 2015 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Evidence-Based Crime Policy from the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy.

"Policing in France is a useful and important read. It illustrates that the divide between Anglo-Saxon conceptions of policing by consent and Francophone conceptions of policing as a national security endeavor are abstractions—both traditions have much in common and face similar challenges in serving their communities. It should be on the shelves of any police library, in the offices of police strategists, and the topic of discussion in professional education for police commanders and executives worldwide."John P. Sullivan, Safe Communities Institute (SCI) at the University of Southern California, in Journal of Strategic Security 15:1

• 1. Policing in France; Historical Background; 2. The Evolving Organization of Policing: From the Ancien Régime to De Gaulle and the Police Nationale; 3. The Colonial Legacy of French Policing; 4. The Dual French Police System: Centralization, Specialization, Competition; Organizational Features and Reforms; 5. Centralization and its Pathologies; 6. Intelligence-led Policing in Criminal Investigations: Implementing Reform; 7. Specialization in Criminal Investigations; 8. Oversight of the French Police; Changing Institutional and Political Context; 9. The Expansion of Private Policing in France; 10. The Pluralization of Local Policing; 11. Security Partnerships in France; Police Problems and Strategies; 12. Policing the Banlieues; 13. Identity Checks as a Professional Repertoire; 14. A Social History of Protest Policing in France; 15. Domestic Intelligence and Counterterrorism in France; 16. Border Policing in France; 17. Police and the Public in France; 18. Community Policing Initiatives in France; 19. Policing and Gender in France; 20. The Police and Sexual Violence