Policing Across the World - Issues for the Twenty-First Century

Informationen zum Autor R.I. Mawby Klappentext This wide-ranging text provides an overview of policing across different societies, and considers the issues facing the US and British police in a wider international context. The book is designed as a coherent introduction to the police. Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging text provides an overview of policing across different societies! and considers the issues facing the US and British police in a wider international context. The book is designed as a coherent introduction to the police. Inhaltsverzeichnis An introduction to comparative policing; an introduction to policing the world stage; approaches to comparative analysis; the impossibility of becoming an expert on everywhere; police systems across the world; variations on a theme; the development of professional police in the United Kingdom and North America; policing Europe - the police systems of continental Europe; post-socialist policing - limitations on institutional change; the colonial tradition; policing in Japan - East Asian archtype; policing issues in international perspective; government and accountability of the police; armed and unarmed police; community policing as cherry pie; police service for crime victims; policewomen - an international comparison; private policing - uniformity and diversity.

Product details

• Authors: R.I. Mawby
• Assisted by: R I Mawby (Editor), R. I. Mawby (Editor), R.I. Mawby (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.01.1999
• EAN: 9781857284881
• ISBN: 978-1-85728-488-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Police & security services, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Police and security services