Catherine Burton - Böcker

This outstanding textbook offers a comprehensive overview of organized crime groups around the world, combining theoretical perspectives with real-world examples from across the globe. Unlike other texts, this book steps beyond discussions of traditional organized crime groups, but also considers street gangs, supremacist groups and terrorists. Offering a transnational perspective, this text speaks to wider debate in international criminology including: global security, human trafficking drugs and arms smuggling, technology and crime, international law enforcement responses.Written by teachers with fifteen years experience of the classroom, this book is essential reading for students engaged with international organized crime and global criminology and justice. The book is supplemented with anecdotes, chapter summaries, discussion questions and suggestions of further reading and websites throughout, making it ideal for students and teachers alike.

Policing Reform: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis provides readers with an in-depth analysis of the past, present, and future of modern American policing.The opening chapter explores social control and the seeds of modern policing, foundations of law enforcement in the U.S., and policing in the early United States. Additional chapters examine the role of American police, the legacy of bigotry within the vocation, and the characteristics of policing as a profession. Students learn about community policing as a possibility for American police reform, problem-oriented policing, and procedural justice and police legitimacy. The book addresses police crime as occupational deviance, excessive use of force, criminal police, police accountability, and police accreditation. The closing chapter addresses the American national police crisis and possible solutions for police reform, including accountability-based policing. Each chapter features chapter objectives, an introduction, questions for discussion, and key terms to support the student learning experience.Providing students with a holistic view of the policing profession and a solutions-focused approach, Policing Reform is a timely and essential resource for courses and programs in policing, law enforcement, and criminal justice.