Lengthening the Arm of the Law - Enhancing Police Resources in the Twenty-First Century

This book explores exchange relationships that can enhance police resources and examines their policy implications.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Obtaining and allocating police resources; 3. Coercion; 4. Sale - buying; 5. Sale - selling; 6. Gift; 7. Ambiguous exchanges and the police; 8. Conclusions.

About the author

Julie Ayling is a Research Associate in the Regulatory Institutions Network at The Australian National University. She previously worked as a senior lawyer in a number of Australian government departments and authorities.Peter Grabosky is Professor at the Regulatory Institutions Network, The Australian National University, and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security. He is the 2006 winner of the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology. He is author most recently of Electronic Crime (2007) and Cyber Criminals on Trial (with Russell G. Smith and Gregor Urbas; Cambridge University Press, 2004), which won the Outstanding Book Award of the American Society of Criminology's Division of International Criminology.Clifford Shearing is Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has held positions at the University of Toronto, the Australian National University, and the University of the Western Cape. He is author most recently of Imagining Security (with Jennifer Wood; 2007) and Governing Security (with Les Johnston; 2003).

Product details

• Authors: Julie Ayling, Ayling Julie, Peter Grabosky, Clifford Shearing, Shearing Clifford
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521493512
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49351-2
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 570 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminology; Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Legal aspects of criminology, Police & security services, Crime & criminology, Police and security services, Police law & police procedures, Criminology: legal aspects