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The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police reform, crowd violence, and many more.
List of contents
FOREWORD (Darrell Stephens, Education, John Hopkins University, USA)
I: POLICING AND THE COMMUNITY
Ch. 1: Prologue (Editors as co-authors).
Ch. 2: Police culture: Us versus them communication (Shawn Hill, Howie Giles, & Miles Hewstone, Psychology, University of Oxford, UK)
Ch. 3: Community policing as communication reform (Ed Maguire & William Wells, Law Enforcement Management,Sam Houston State University, TX, USA).
Ch. 4: Officer-community complaint mediation. (Bernard Melekian,Public Safety, Santa Barbara County, USA).
Ch. 5: Crowd theory, communication and policing (CliffordStott,Psychology, University of Keele, UK).
Ch. 6: Speaking truth from power: Communicating realistic expectations of the police (Michael Scott,Public Service & Community Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA).
II: INTERGROUP BIASES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE POLICING
Ch. 7: Race, Policing and Communication: Old Problems, 21
st Century Struggles
(Travis Dixon, Marisa Smith, & Kristopher Weeks,Communication, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA).
Ch. 8: Intergroup biases: Policing and gender (Cara Rabe-Hemp,Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, USA) & Amie M. Schuck (Criminology, Law & Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA).
Ch. 9: Policing and LBGTQ+ Communities (Stephen S. Owen,Criminology, Radford University, VA, USA).
Ch. 10: Policing Muslim communities: The importance of communication and procedural justice (Kristina Murphy, Criminology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia).
Ch. 11: The media and our perception of the police (Jan Van den Bulck,Communication, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA).
Ch. 12: Law enforcement and enforcement partnerships: Chancing communication skills and interventions with people I crisis (Ellen Scrivner, Transformative Police Reform, Public Safety Innovations, Sanibel, Florida, USA).
III: POLICING, COMMUNITY COMPLAINTS, AND CRIME
Ch. 13: A language analysis of traffic stop decisions (Belen Lowrey-Kinberg,Sociology & Criminal Justice, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY, USA).
Ch. 14: Policing hate crimes and terrorism in the digital age (Brian Blakemore,Police Sciences, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK).
Ch. 15: Understanding the communication dynamics inherent to police crisis negotiation (Amy Grubb,Forensic Psychology, The University of Worcester, UK).
Ch. 16: Communication dynamics in the wake of homicide. (Fiona Brookman, Criminology, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK) & Dean Dabney,Criminal Justice & Criminology. Georgia State University, Athens, USA)
Ch 17: Enhancing the law enforcement response to sexual assault and domestic violence (Carrie Bettinger-Lopez, Law, University of Miami, USA & Tamar Ezer, Law, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA)
EPILOGUE: Ch 18. (Theory, praxis, and the future [Editors as co-authors]).
About the author
Edited by Howard Giles; Edward R. Maguire and Shawn L. Hill - Foreword by Darrel W. Stephens - Contributions by Daniel Angus; Caroline Bettinger-López; Brian Blakemore; Scott E. Branton; Chandrika C. Collins; Travis Dixon; Tamar Ezer; Howard Giles; Amy R.
