Police Research: Some Future Prospects

ISBN-13: 9781032439563 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 198 str.

Weatheritt, Mollie

Opis

First published in 1989, the chapters in this book stand as evidence both of the growth of police research in the 1980s and its variety. Contributors were asked to take stock of research in their respective fields and to assess where policing research had got to and how it had arrived there. The resulting contributions are presentred here.

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Acknowledgements.  List of Contributors.  Preface.  Part I: The Context and Politics of Police Research  1. The Politics of Police Research in Britain Robert Reiner  2. Achieving ‘Value for Money’ From Police Expenditure: The Contribution of Research John Burrows  3. Why Should the Police Use Police Research? Mollie Weatheritt  4. Demand for Policing and Police Performance: Progress and Pitfalls in Public Surveys Mike Hough  Part II: Police Culture and Police Organisation  5. Discovering Structure. Studies of the British Police Occupational Culture Simon Holdaway  6. Police Culture and Police Practice Nigel G. Fielding  7. Avoiding Trouble: The Patrol Officer’s Perception of Encounters with the Public Clive Norris  8. Managing Paperwork Michael R. Chatterton  Part III: Regulating the Police  9. Police Decision-Making Peter K. Manning and Keith Hawkins  10. Regulation and Policing by Code Robert Baldwin  11. Police Accountability: Current Developments and Future Prospects Rod Morgan.