Policing Images

ISBN-13: 9780415627832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Rob Mawby

Opis

Documenting and explaining the activities in which the police engage to construct and project images of policing, this book draws upon first-hand research and includes a detailed look at police press and public relations officers at work.

Spis treści

Preface  1. The history of police image work 1829-1987  2. The professionalisation of police image work since 1987  3. The national picture: systems of police image work  4. Police image work at the local level: a force and its mission  5. Press and public relations officers at work  6. Image work and operational policing  7. Conclusions: image work, police work and legitimacy

O autorze

Rob C. Mawby is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leicester University. He was previously Senior Lecturer and Head of the Centre for Public Services Management and Research at Staffordshire University. He has written extensively on various aspects of policing.