Police organizations must strategically control their external environment in order to
maintain organizational legitimacy. Exploiting their relationship with the news media is one …

This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the
shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate. In a critical …

Crime and insecurity are top public policy concerns in Latin America. Political leaders offer
tough-on-crime solutions that include increased policing and punishments, and decreased …

How can otherwise normal, moral persons-as citizens, voters, and jurors-participate in a
process that is designed to take the life of another? In DEATH BY DESIGN, research …

In 1996, Garland published the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Police Science, edited
by the late William G. Bailey. The work covered all the major sectors of policing in the US …

For nearly four decades, police agencies of all sizes have established public information
officer (PIO) functions to communicate with a variety of audiences, particularly the media …

AMBER Alerts are public announcements designed to elicit citizen tips that could help
rapidly recover abducted children before they can be harmed by their kidnappers. Using …

Criminal justice Public Information Officers (PIOs) are a unique criminal justice specialty and
key gatekeepers in the production of crime and justice information. The findings of a 1998 …

This study evaluates aspects of newspaper reporting about death penalty cases and capital
defendants. In a content analysis of newspaper coverage of a representative sample of 26 …

Although there is a very large body of research examining community policing practices in
the United States, no study has yet to examine the efforts by police departments to promote …