This book is intended for undergraduate and postgraduate students in police studies, criminology, sociology of deviance and control, social policy and race and ethnic relations, as well as researchers, policy makers, senior police officers and police training instuctors. The author provides a detailed analysis of policing practice within the context of existing criminological theory about the police and goes on to evaluate the potential of community policing to achieve the objectives which have been set for it.

Comparative politics has undergone significant theoretical changes in recent decades. Particularly since the 1980s, a new generation of scholars have revamped and rejuvinated the study of the subject.

Mehran Kamrava examines current and past approaches to the study of comparative politics and proposes a new framework for analysis. This is achieved through a comparative examination of state and social institutions, the interactions that occur between them, and the poltical cultures within which they operate. The book also offers a concise and detailed synthesis of existing...