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Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies. Policing Human Rights exposes how and why human rights law comes to be socially constituted, organizationally conditioned, and routinely interpreted and applied by police officers.

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The book discusses such matters as the pains of imprisonment, penal order, staff-prisoner relationships and the everyday world of the prison, drawing on and critiquing Sykes's theories and insights, and placing them in their historic and contempor...

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Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 A wonderful book - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wifes blood. But was he a grieving husband, or a ruthles...

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Understanding Forensic Digital Imaging offers the principles of forensic digital imaging and photography in a manner that is straightforward and easy to digest for the professional and student. It provides information on how to photograph any sett...

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This book critically examines the role and accountability of the police in India and lays emphasis on the human rights of citizens referring to international instruments and the guidelines of the National Human Rights Commission for the prevention...

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In contemporary times, US domestic policy is fragmented but has unifying factors, including a shift to communicative strategies that aim to keep families intact and urge counseling, batterer intervention programs, and/or legal mediation.

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In this book, philosopher Seumas Miller analyzes the various moral justifications and moral responsibilities involved in the use of lethal force by police and military, relying on a distinctive normative teleological account of institutional roles.

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Predict and Surveil offers an unprecedented, inside look at how police use big data and new surveillance technologies. Sarah Brayne conducted years of fieldwork with the LAPD--one of the largest and most technically advanced law enforcement agenci...

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Policing Sport Mega-Events shows how globalised mega-event security standards have been implemented and adapted in the everyday practices of security officials, at various positions in the Brazilian security apparatus, through first hand insights ...

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Drawing on the first comprehensive study in England and Wales to review the police custody process from the perspective of children, Bevan traces the child's journey from arrest, through detention and interview, to release or remand. A rights-base...

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Police departments across the USA are busily "reinventing" themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing". Police departments that succeed in adopting this new stance have an entirely different relationship to the public that they ...

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Policing as an occupation is rife with opportunities for corruption. As recent scandals in Los Angeles and New York demonstrate, police officers, the 'blue knights' entrusted and empowered with legal enforcement, often en up on the wrong side of t...

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Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More police using better tactics? Or even the effects...

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In Stop & Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago, Wesley G. Skogan offers a comprehensive analysis of the stop & frisk policy, its origins as Chicago's predominant strategy for responding to violent crime, and its impact on public opinion. Dra...

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A collection of topical essays by many of the UK's leading public lawyers and centred on a single theme: the influence of US jurisprudence upon English Public Law. The contributors, including Eric Barendt, Keith Ewing, Carol Harlow, Paul Craig, Pe...

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David Dixon poses the questions: how do law and policing relate? and can police practices be significantly changed by means of legal regulation? In examining these questions, this book deals with issues which are at the heart of contemporary debat...

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In this book the author argues that the political space allowed to the police on the streets and in the police station enables them to pursue an extra-legal agenda of Social Discipline, targeted at certain sections of the community. This alternati...

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This is a uniquely informed account of armed policing in Britain - the author is the only civilian ever to be fully trained as a police marksman, and the Metropolitan Police have allowed him unprecendented access to hitherto confidential documenta...

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The need for co-operation between the police forces of the world has never been greater: there is a huge growth in international drug-trafficking and terrorism, and many social and economic activities are becoming increasingly internationalized. I...

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The second edition of Covert Policing offers a comprehensive and updated analysis of the law governing covert policing activities. Providing practitioners with an understanding of the framework governing covert operations and clear guidance on RIP...

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Exporting the UK Policing Brand 1989 - 2021 is an in-depth study of the history and development of the UK policing brand. In this book, Sinclair charts the long and vivid international history and enduring mythology surrounding the UK policing bra...

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The first in-depth empirical investigation of Japan's divergent police detention arrangements, shining a spotlight on the remand procedure for criminal suspects. Currently, the 23-day duration for which individuals can be held in police custody pr...

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Tells the story of how and why Neighbourhood Policing was originally developed, the ways it has been implemented across different communities and in respect of different crime problems, and what its future prospects are likely to be.

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The book centres on the idea that the police are a focal point for conflict in society rather than a solution to people's security issues. Using the Dutch police as a starting point, it argues that the demise of bureaucracy makes it increasingly d...

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The first authoritative history of kidnapping based on extensive qualitative research of gangs and policing, as well as an analysis of the effect the crime has on how communities experience the city, and the strategies put in place by potential vi...

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An analysis of findings from a comprehensive observational study of police community support officers (PCSOs), examining the distinct culture of PCSOs, what relationships between PCSOs and police officers are like within a rapidly diversifying org...

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An examination of international cooperation in tackling cross-border crimes such as terrorism, through a socio-legal lens. This qualitative study focuses on Australia and Indonesia, asking questions about the conditions that promote cooperation, a...

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This book examines the degree to which restorative justice can contribute to a more enhanced justice response than that currently offered by criminal legal approaches alone to victims, offenders, and their communities in cases of sexual crime.

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This book explores the everyday policing of immigration officers and police officers in charge of inland border controls in the United Kingdom. It looks at migration policing in terms of a globalized world and how that presents new demands and cha...

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Occupational Health and Wellbeing for British Policing: A Primer aims to examine the role of occupational health within the police force. It considers how a health service is set up within a police force, assessing officer fitness, and managing ph...

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