George Orwell's 'Big Brother'and Michel Foucault's 'panopticon'have dominated discussion
of contemporary developments in surveillance. While such metaphors draw our attention to …

The fifth edition of the popular and highly acclaimed The Politics of the Police has been
completely revised, expanded, and updated to take in recent changes in the law, policy, and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the state of research of police militarization in
the USA to explore the claim that the police are becoming more like the military, or …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

Prominent among the quests for post-9/11 security are developments in surveillance,
especially at national borders. These developments are not new, but many of them have …

Over a decade on from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, intelligence continues to be of central
importance to the contemporary world. Today there is a growing awareness of the …

This book is concerned with the ways in which the problem of security is thought about and
promoted by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental …

Police Ethics, Fourth Edition, provides an analysis of corruption in law enforcement
organizations. The authors argue that the noble cause—a commitment to “doing something …

A new specialist has emerged in policing organisations in Europe, viz: the liaison officer. We
might stop to consider why the emergence of this new role should concern us. There are …

American policing demonstrates both continuity and change. A high degree of
decentralization persists, as do bureaucratic structures of larger police agencies. The …