The Oxford handbook of police and policing

 Content: List of Contributors ; PART I: POLICING CONTEXTS ; 1. A Recent History of Police, James J. Willis ; 2. Policing Urban Drug Markets, Lallen Johnson ; 3. The Politics of Policing, John L. Worrall ; 4. Police Organizations and the Iron Cage of Rationality, Edward R. Maguire ; PART II: POLICING STRATEGIES ; 5. Problem-Oriented Policing: Principles, Practice, and Crime Prevention, Anthony A. Braga ; 6. Order-Maintenance Policing, David Thacher ; 7. Community Policing, Gary Cordner ; 8. Zero Tolerance and Policing, Jack R. Greene ; 9. Policing Vulnerable Populations, Melissa Schaefer Morabito ; PART III: POLICE AUTHORITY ; 10. Police Authority in Liberal Consent Democracies: A Case for Anti-Authoritarian  Cops, Willem de Lint ; 11. Police Legitimacy, Justice Tankebe ; 12. Police Coercion, William Terrill ; 13. Restraint and Technology: Exploring Police Use of the TASER Through the Diffusion of Innovation Framework, Michael D. White ; 14. Police Misconduct, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich ; PART IV: RACE/ETHNICITY AND POLICING ; 15. Police Race Relations, Ronald Weitzer ; 16. Race, Place, and Policing the Inner-City, Rod K. Brunson and Jacinta M. Gau ; 17. Racial Profiling, Robin Engel and Derek M. Cohen ; 18. Illegal Immigration and Local Policing, Melanie A. Taylor, Scott H. Decker, Doris M. Provine, Paul G. Lewis, and Monica W. Varsanyi ; PART V: VARIETIES OF POLICE RESEARCH ; 19. Police Administrative Records as Social Science Data, Matthew J. Hickman ; 20. Using Community Surveys to Study Policing, Wesley G. Skogan ; 21. Systematic Social Observation of the Police, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean ; 22. Using Experimental Designs to Study Police Interventions, Lorraine Mazerolle, Cynthia Lum, and Anthony A. Braga ; 23. Ethnographies of Policing, Peter K. Manning ; PART VI: POLICING INTO THE FUTURE ; 24. Police Legitimacy in Action: Lessons for Theory and Policy, Ben Bradford, Jonathan Jackson, and Mike Hough ; 25. Private Policing in Public Spaces, Alison Wakefield and Mark Button ; 26. The Policing of Space: New Realities, Old Dilemmas, Steve Herbert ; 27. Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Past, Present, and Future Prospects, Gorazd Mesko, Andrej Sotlar, and Branko Lobnikar ; 28. Local Police and the ''War'' on Terrorism, Brian Forst ; Index
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              The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing brings together research on the development and operation of policing in the United States and elsewhere. Accomplished policing researchers Michael D. Reisig and Robert J. Kane have assembled a cast of renowned scholars to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the institution of policing.                 Read more...