Routledge Series on Practical and Evidence-Based Policing
About the Book Series
Books in the Routledge Series on Practical and Evidence-Based Policing disseminate knowledge and provide practical tools for law enforcement leaders and personnel to protect and serve the public and reduce crime. With an aim to bridge the "translation gap" between frontline policing and academic research, books in this series apply sound scientific methods as well as practical experience to make everyday police work safer and smarter. These books are an invaluable resource for police practitioners, academic researchers, public policymakers, and students in law enforcement and criminology programs to guide best practices in all aspects of policing.
Gold Medal Policing: Operational Readiness and Performance Excellence
2nd Edition
By Judy M. McDonald
March 23, 2025
This straightforward, easy-to-understand textbook inspires tools for improving job performance, productivity, and morale in law enforcement. The groundbreaking first edition of Gold Medal Policing, inspired by work with Olympic athletes, confirmed the importance of mental readiness in frontline ...
Understanding Police Operational Performance
1st Edition
By James E. McCabe, Paul E. O'Connell, Demosthenes Long, Carol Rasor-Cordero
December 17, 2024
Understanding Police Operational Performance provides a roadmap for police agencies to implement performance-improvement strategies that work. This book provides an easy-to-read, comprehensive overview of the key indicators of successful internal operations of police agencies in the United States, ...
Reframing Police Education and Freedom in America
1st Edition
By Martin Alan Greenberg, Beth Allen Easterling
September 15, 2023
This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight. The recommended approach recognizes that the citizenry needs to be included in the provision of basic police education, for it is they who must both ...
Human Rights Policing: Reimagining Law Enforcement in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Peter Marina, Pedro Marina
October 14, 2022
Relying on intense ethnographic research and extensive experiences teaching human rights policing to police officers, this book teaches law enforcement professionals how to apply human rights to their everyday interactions with community members. The data collected throughout this research process ...
Interviewing Vulnerable Suspects: Safeguarding the Process
1st Edition
Edited
By Jane Tudor-Owen, Celine van Golde, Ray Bull, David Gee
October 14, 2022
This book is an in-depth, evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities. It provides an overview of current research, practices, and legal considerations for interviewing vulnerable suspects, incorporating guidelines regarding the identification of vulnerabilities, ...
The Wicked Problems of Police Reform in Canada
1st Edition
By Laura Huey, Lorna Ferguson, Jennifer L. Schulenberg
August 12, 2022
This book looks at police reform in Canada, arguing that no significant and sustainable reform can occur until steps are taken to answer the question of 'What exactly do we want police to do?' Adding challenge to this is that setting boundaries on what we expect the police to do requires grappling ...
Public Corruption in the United States: Analysis of a Destructive Phenomenon
1st Edition
By Jeff Cortese
May 13, 2022
Public Corruption in the United States provides a comprehensive view of public corruption, including discussion on its types, methods, trends, challenges, and overall impact. It is the first book of its kind to examine in plain language the breadth of criminal public corruption in the United States...
Police and YOUth
1st Edition
By Everette B. Penn, Shannon A. Davenport
February 03, 2022
This book brings the knowledge gained from the Teen And Police Service Academy (TAPS), which has been implemented internationally to create partnerships with at-risk teens and police, proactively addressing some of the most pressing conditions in their communities. Readers will learn about the ...
Twenty-one Mental Models That Can Change Policing: A Framework for Using Data and Research for Overcoming Cognitive Bias
1st Edition
By Renée J. Mitchell
September 16, 2021
This book goes beyond other police leadership books to teach practitioners how to think about policing in a structured way that synthesizes criminological theory, statistics, research design, applied research, and what works and what doesn’t in policing into Mental Models. A Mental Model is a ...
Police Misconduct Complaint Investigations Manual
2nd Edition
By Barbara Attard, Kathryn Olson
July 16, 2020
The Police Misconduct Complaint Investigations Manual provides a timely and unique, step-by-step approach to conducting or reviewing police misconduct investigations, whether a complaint involves a lower-level allegation of discourtesy or more serious concerns such as excessive force or criminal ...
Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody
1st Edition
By Darrell L. Ross, Gary M. Vilke
July 12, 2017
As unrest over officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody takes center stage in conversations about policing and the criminal justice system, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody addresses critical investigation components from ...