Police Leadership: Rising to the Top

ISBN-13: 9780198728627 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 312 str.

Jenny Fleming; Jenny Fleming

Opis

In this era of ever more complex policing issues and the changing nature of policing itself, senior police officers face a never-ending challenge to keep up not only with the latest reforms, but also with the latest research.

Recenzje

Jenny Fleming's Police Leadership: Rising to the Top offers a comprehensive guide to understanding the structures, research methods, and challenges of police leadership. This edited book is a welcome contribution to this topic as it is the only published book to present a tailored discussion around strategic and extensive police leadership issues by taking into consideration and presenting both academic knowledge and views-'local knowledge'as presented by senior police practitioners.

O autorze

Professor Jenny Fleming joined the University of Southampton as Professor of Criminology in 2012 where she is also the Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research. Professor Fleming's expertise lies in collaborative research covering such topics as police partnerships, police leadership and management. She is interested in organizational imperatives that impact on the way in which 'police do business' and has published widely in this area. She is the co-author of Fighting Crime Together: The Challenges of Policing and Security Networks (with Jennifer Wood) and The Sage Dictionary of Policing (with Alison Wakefield). Professor Fleming is the Editor-in-Chief of Policing and Society, an international journal of research and policy, the leading policing peer-reviewed journal in the UK. Professor Fleming is part of the University Consortium in partnership with the College of Policing, supporting a programme for the newly established What Works Centre for Crime Reduction.