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 …

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 …

One of the first actions of the new Home Secretary was to scrap public confidence as the
single performance indicator of policing in England and Wales. Yet public trust and …

Public confidence in policing has received much attention in recent years, but few studies
outside of the United States have examined the sociological and social–psychological …

Public confidence in policing is receiving increasing attention from UK social scientists and
policy‐makers. The criminal justice system relies on legitimacy and consent to an extent …

There are already many books in circulation that are able to provide readers with overviews
of the core subject matter of police studies, such as the historical origins and development; …

This article examines the relationship between confidence in the police and concern about
crime. A large body of research on opinions about police treats confidence in the police as a …

In Britain, public confidence in policing has become a short-hand for trust, legitimacy and
consent. As such, the phrase tends to wrap up a set of inter-connected yet empirically and …

This paper revisits the earlier claim of one of its authors that a fundamental shift is taking
place in policing towards a strategic, future-oriented and targeted approach to crime control …

Runner up in the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2010 What is anti-social
behaviour? Can it be dealt with effectively? Is the problem exaggerated? From the Daily …