Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest …

Policing in America, Ninth Edition, provides a thorough analysis of the key issues in policing
today, and offers an issues-oriented discussion focusing on critical concerns such as …

There has been optimism that social media will facilitate citizen participation and transform
the communication strategies of public organisations. Drawing on a case study of the public …

Do performances of brutality have to be part of institutional social control in African American
communities? Are these communities haunted by historical beliefs, practices, and …

Social, political, and economic relationships played key roles in the historical development
of the police. The authors present policing strategies from the vantage points of marginalized …

ABSTRACT Embedded in Goffman's (1959) concept of impression management and
drawing on interview data this article examines cultural and organisational features which …

Is it possible to create democratic forms of policing in transitional and developing societies?
This volume argues that policing models and practices promoted by the west are often …

Purpose–The managerialization of the police may be seen as an effort to restore the
legitimacy of the police. This paper aims to show that the managerialist strategy presently …

This study examines the socio-economic development potential of engaging dialogue on
sub-Saharan Africa Police Service Websites (SSAPWs). Drawing upon Kent and Taylor's …

Anglo‐American community policing has been implemented in Finland since 1996 but there
has been a long tradition of the community policing style, called the village police, since the …