Policing has developed as an increasingly important and popular subject of study at colleges and universities in western societies, either as a subject in its own right or as part of broader courses in the field of criminology and criminal justice. At the same time police forces themselves have become increasingly professionalised and engaged with academic and theoretical debates on the nature of policing. Both students and practitioners have needed ready access to the growing body of literature and writing on policing.
The book is divided into five major sections:
The history of policing: focusing on the emergence of the police in the USA and the UK, but including several readings on other policing systems
The role of the police: in particular the balance or tension between crime fighting, order maintenance and other forms of service, and how these arguments have developed historically
Organisation and culture: how these are theorised and understood, considering arguments about the need for reform
Approaches to policing: from crackdowns and the ‘broken windows’ theory, through zero tolerance to community policing
Policing futures: debates about the future shape of policing, including work on risk, actuarialism and post-Keynesianism, and the debate on how current trends are to be understood
Contents
Introduction
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Part A: The Emergence and Development of the Police Introduction
1 The demand for order in civil society Allan Silver
2 Police and people: the birth of Mr Peel's 'blue locusts' Michael Ignatieff
3 Cops and Bobbies, 1830-1870 Wilbur R. Miller
4 A 'new police' in Australia Mark Finnane
5 The emergence of the police - the colonial dimension Mike Brogden
6 The emergence of the police - explaining police reform in eighteenth and nineteenth century England John Styles
7 The evolving strategy of policing George L. Kelling and Mark H. Moore
8 The evolving strategy of police: a minority view Hubert Williams and Patrick V. Murphy
Part B: The Role and Function of the Police Introduction
9 The police as peace officers Michael Banton
10 Responsibilities of the police William Westley
11 What do the police do? David H. Bayley
12 Florence Nightingale in pursuit of Willie Sutton: a theory of the police Egon Bittner
13 The paradox of dispossession: skid row at night William Ker Muir Jr
14 The police: mandate, strategies, and appearances Peter K. Manning
15 The police as reproducers of order Richard V. Ericson
16 The investigative function P. Greenwood, J.M. Chaiken and J. Petersilia
Part C: Police Culture Introduction
17 A s ketch of the policeman's 'working personality' Jerome Skolnick
18 The asshole John Van Maunen
19 Street cops and management cops: the two cultures of policing Elizabeth Reuss-lanni and Francis A.J. Lanni
20 Culture as figurative action Clifford Shearing an d Richard Ericson
21 Changing police culture Janet Chan
22 Police (canteen) sub-culture: an appreciation P.A.J. Waddington
Part D: Policing Strategies Introduction
23 Improving policing: a problem-oriented approach Herman Goldstein
24 Who ya gonna call? T he police as problem-busters John E. Eck and William Spelman
25 Community policing in Chicago Wes Skagan and Susan Hartnett
26 The rhetoric of community policing Carl B. Klockars
27 Broken windows: the police and neighborhood safety James Q. Wilson and Ge orge L. Kelling
28 Crime is down in New York City: blame the police William J. Bratton
29 Beyond zero tolerance David Dixon
30 Reforming to preserve: Compstat and strategic problem solving in American policing David Weisburd, Stephen D. Mastrofski, AnnMarie McNally, Rosann Greenspan and James Willis
31 Sizing up COMPSTAT: an important administrative innovation in policing Mark H. Moore
32 The policing of risk Richard V. Ericson and Kevin D. Haggerty
Part E: Deviance, Ethics and Control Introduction
33 The beating of Rodney King Jerome Skoln
