Bücher der Reihe Advances in Police Theory and Practice

A collection of chapters authored by internationally known police leaders, academics, researchers, and professionals, this book focuses on the fact that the two worlds of practice and research are moving closer and closer.

This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels. With studies being conducted in 20 different countries and 4 distinct regions, the contributors to this volume shed light on the ways in which contextual particularities shape the practices and strategies of addressing the socio-cultural and legal problem of gender-based domestic violence in the countries or regions where they do research. Special attention is devoted to developing countries where there is a lack of a consistent legal definition of gender-based domestic violence and where violence against women is widely considered a private matter. The authors of the chapters share a common goal of raising public awareness of the significance in nuanced local experiences of women and other individuals from gender and sexual minority groups facing gender-based violence.Furthermore, the authors attend, analytically, to the newly emerging, overlapping influences of COVID-19 and global warming. Their research findings acknowledge and provide a detailed account of how the two ecological and socio-economic crises can combine to produce economic devastation, disconnect victims from necessary social services and assistance, and create a large degree of panic and uncertainty. In addition, they intend to offer insights into next steps to not only adjust existing public policies, legislation, and social services to the ever-changing national and global contexts, but also to make new ones.The book is intended for a wide range of scholars (both professors and students) and practitioners in a large number of areas, including but not limited to criminal justice, criminology, law, human rights, social justice, social work, nursing, sociology, and political or public affairs.

This book ilustrates the complexity of policing in the 21st century and cover themes common to the police organizations around the world.

With contributions from international policing experts, this book is the first of its kind to bring together a broad range of scholarship on translational criminology and policing.

Women in Policing around the World is a historical, legal, political, and social examination of women in policing around the world.

Police departments in many parts of the world have set up specific programs with crisis intervention teams to facilitate police contact with the mentally ill. Focusing chiefly on jurisdictions in Australia, this volume also examines several of these programs in North America, Europe, and parts of the developing world.

This volume explores an experiment that took place in Zwelethemba-located in South Africa's Western Cape Province-to establish legitimate and effective nonstate security governance within poor urban settlements.

This volume explores the experiments in community security based upon the well known Zwelethemba model in South Africa and other case studies around the globe. By examining these cases and their outcomes, the authors provide a theoretical analysis of the models used. They present a series of modified design principles for future applications in local security governance. Whenever possible raw data is used and a thorough analysis of existing information on security governance is included. This is an important examination of experimental models and a presentation of new groundbreaking theory and design models in engaging the local community in solving security governance problems.

Focused on two key topics regarding policing in the 21st century, this volume brings together highly insightful essays from world-class scholars on developments in contemporary community policing in advanced industrial societies, and peacekeeping in weak and failing states.

Women in Policing around the World is a historical, legal, political, and social examination of women in policing around the world.

This book examines the major theoretical foundations of ethics, before zooming in on definitions of professional practice and applied professional ethics, as distinct from private morals, in general and then focusing on professional ethics for translators and interpreters in police and legal settings.

This book addresses the various strategies that are available to police management, such as consolidation, regionalization, and amalgamation of police agencies; new public management (NPM); enhanced performance management; civilianization; and organizational restructuring.

This book presents important advances in Israeli police science based on empirical data during the past decade while making significant contributions to broader aspects of the policing literature.

This book addresses shadow economies and the players involved by examining various aspects of criminal law and prosecution.

Focused on two key topics regarding policing in the 21st century, this volume brings together highly insightful essays from world-class scholars on developments in contemporary community policing in advanced industrial societies, and peacekeeping in weak and failing states.

This book provides solutions for the range of interview challenges found in today's multilingual environments.

Exploring the complex and controversial topic of civilian oversight of police, this book analyzes the issues and debates entailed by civilian oversight by using worldwide perspectives, in-depth case studies, and a wealth of survey data.

Based primarily upon information from the UK Special Branch Counterterrorism Unit, this book takes you through the mechanics of a counterterrorism investigation, from legal definitions to admissibility at trial.

Written by experts who conduct training and consulting worldwide, this text enables police and public safety agencies to more easily get these cases to court.

There are many approaches to understanding white-collar crime. This volume highlights the importance of police intelligence in confronting these crimes and criminals and focuses on the identification, retrieval, storage, and application of information resources.

This volume provides readers with the knowledge and understanding of the characteristics and causes of honor-based violence and offers practical insights into effective methods of policing.

This text assembles the psychological and criminological theories underpinning crime linkage, how it is used in practice, the challenges practitioners face, and current innovations which will shape the future of crime linkage research and practice.

This book reveals a special inside study performed under the authority of LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates to investigate why the department had begun to disintegrate and how, if possible, it could be salvaged.

Documents the challenges and opportunities facing the Hong Kong police force following the reversion of political authority from the UK to China in 1997. This book may be of value to students and researchers working in the area of comparative policing, and comparative criminal justice, as well as police professionals, and policy-makers.

Drawn from the work of scholars on the cutting edge of police research, this volume provides concrete recommendations for the fundamental reorganization of the policing institution.

This book examines changing concepts in security and the expansion of the role of the Security Council of the UN. Expert contributors reveal methods to identify criminals and efforts to combat illegal activity. They also investigate alternative approaches to preventing another worldwide financial disaster.

This volume examines the issue of human organ trafficking from the perspectives of criminal justice, business, medicine, ethics, philosophy, and theology.

Bringing together the research of anthropologists and criminologists, this volume explores the concept of community policing from a world-wide perspective.

Designed for administrators at all levels, this book presents proven strategies to prevent police corruption and to maintain an ethical culture in policing.