Advances in Police Theory and Practice
About the Book Series
Presenting volumes that focus on the nexus between research and practice, the Advances in Police Theory and Practice series is geared toward those practitioners and academics seeking to implement the latest innovations in policing from across the world. This series draws from an international community of experts who examine who the police are, what they do, and how they maintain order, administer laws, and serve their communities.
The series editor encourages the contribution of works coauthored by police practitioners and researchers. Proposals for contributions to the series may be submitted to the series editor Dilip Das at [email protected].
Civilian Oversight of Police: Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Prenzler, Garth den Heyer
December 10, 2019
Exploring the complex and controversial topic of civilian oversight of police, this book analyzes the issues and debates entailed by civilian oversight by using worldwide perspectives, in-depth case studies, and a wealth of survey data. Integrating and summarizing decades of research from many ...
Cold Cases: Evaluation Models with Follow-up Strategies for Investigators, Second Edition
2nd Edition
By James M. Adcock, Sarah L. Stein
December 10, 2019
Because the investigation of cold cases is usually an arduous and time-consuming task, most law enforcement agencies in the United States are not able to dedicate the resources necessary to support the cold case investigation process. However, when those cases are fully pursued and prosecuted, they...
Collaborative Policing: Police, Academics, Professionals, and Communities Working Together for Education, Training, and Program Implementation
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter C. Kratcoski, Maximilian Edelbacher
December 10, 2019
"The chapters in this book reveal that police education, training, and practices are now closely tied to collaboration between police, academics, professional practitioners, and community agencies, and such collaboration is described and evaluated."—Dilip K. Das, PhD, Founding President, ...
Community Policing: International Patterns and Comparative Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Dominique Wisler, Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe
December 10, 2019
Community-oriented policing (COP) is the ideology and policy model espoused in the mission statements of nearly all policing forces throughout the world. However, the COP philosophy is interpreted differently by different countries and police forces, resulting in practices that may in fact run far ...
Community Policing and Peacekeeping
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Grabosky
December 10, 2019
In modern industrial societies, the demand for policing services frequently exceeds the current and foreseeable availability of public policing resources. Conversely, developing nations often suffer from an inability to provide a basic level of security for their citizens. Community Policing and ...
Corruption, Fraud, Organized Crime, and the Shadow Economy
1st Edition
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By Maximilian Edelbacher, Peter C. Kratcoski, Bojan Dobovsek
December 10, 2019
Fueled by corruption, fraud, and organized crime, the shadow economy—also known as the informal, black market, illegal, or underground economy—is currently on the rise worldwide. Corruption, Fraud, Organized Crime, and the Shadow Economy addresses shadow economies and the players involved by ...
Crime Linkage: Theory, Research, and Practice
1st Edition
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By Jessica Woodhams, Craig Bennell
December 10, 2019
The increasing portrayal of forensic investigative techniques in the popular media—CSI, for example, has resulted in criminals becoming "forensically aware" and more careful about leaving behind physical evidence at a crime scene. This presents law enforcement with a significant problem: how can ...
Delivering Police Services Effectively
1st Edition
By Garth den Heyer
December 10, 2019
This book addresses the various strategies that are available to police management, such as consolidation, regionalization, and amalgamation of police agencies; new public management (NPM); enhanced performance management; civilianization; and organizational restructuring. It fills the gap in the ...
Ethics for Police Translators and Interpreters
1st Edition
By Sedat Mulayim, Miranda Lai
December 10, 2019
This book examines the major theoretical foundations of ethics, before zooming in on definitions of professional practice and applied professional ethics, as distinct from private morals, in general and then focusing on professional ethics for translators and interpreters in police and legal ...
Financial Crimes: A Threat to Global Security
1st Edition
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By Maximilian Edelbacher, Peter Kratcoski, Michael Theil
December 10, 2019
Financial market reform has focused chiefly on the threats to stability arising from the risky, uncontrolled activity of the leaders of financial institutions. Nevertheless, organized crime, white-collar crime, and corruption have a huge impact on financial systems worldwide and must also be ...
Honor-Based Violence: Policing and Prevention
1st Edition
By Karl Anton Roberts, Gerry Campbell, Glen Lloyd
December 10, 2019
Honor-based violence (HBV) is a crime committed to protect or defend the honor of a family and/or a community. It is usually triggered by the victim’s behavior, which the family and/or community regards as causing offense or dishonor. HBV has existed for thousands of years but has only very ...
Los Angeles Police Department Meltdown: The Fall of the Professional-Reform Model of Policing
1st Edition
By James Lasley
December 10, 2019
Once considered among the most respected police departments in the world, the LAPD suffered a devastating fall from grace following the 1991 police officer beating of Rodney King and the Los Angeles riots stemming from the officers’ acquittal in 1992. Unique to the literature of policing, ...