Policing
Policing
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Summary
The second edition of this lively and comprehensive textbook helps policing students to understand the challenges of modern policing and the current debates associated with the profession, with reference to key topics such as diversity and the police, methods of policing, police accountability, and women in policing.
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Policing by Peter Joyce
The second edition of this lively and comprehensive textbook helps policing students to understandthe challenges of modern policing and the current debates associated with the profession, with reference tokey topics such asdiversity and the police,methods of policing, police accountability, and women in policing.
Praise for the previous edition:
Offers comprehensive coverage of key policing topicsIt is easy to navigate and the chapters provide clear aims and objectives. The study questions at the end of each chapter provide students with a mechanism to review each chapter and consider what they have learned.
- Dr Suzanne Young, Department of Criminology, Leeds Beckett University
This book is a clearly written account of the progress of policing in the United Kingdom, a welcome and unfettered approach to the subject.
- The Criminal Lawyer
Any student new to criminology or policing will be able to develop their knowledge using this book. Joyce′s style of written expression allows for an easy reading experience, without skimming on the details.
- Anna Waistnage, Grimsby Institute of HE & FE -- .
Offers comprehensive coverage of key policing topicsIt is easy to navigate and the chapters provide clear aims and objectives. The study questions at the end of each chapter provide students with a mechanism to review each chapter and consider what they have learned.
- Dr Suzanne Young, Department of Criminology, Leeds Beckett University
This book is a clearly written account of the progress of policing in the United Kingdom, a welcome and unfettered approach to the subject.
- The Criminal Lawyer
Any student new to criminology or policing will be able to develop their knowledge using this book. Joyce′s style of written expression allows for an easy reading experience, without skimming on the details.
- Anna Waistnage, Grimsby Institute of HE & FE -- .
Peter Joyce is Visiting Professor in Criminology at Wrexham Glyndwr University. He is widely published in Criminology and Politics, specialising in policing and the policing of protest. He served as a member of the Independent Police Ethics Committee in the Greater Manchester Police Force Area between 2014 and 2018. Published works include The Policing of Protest, Disorder and International Terrorism (Palgrave/Macmillan 2016) and Criminal Justice: An Introduction (Routledge, 2017, 3rd edition). Wendy Laverick is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Policing at The University of Hull. She publishes in the area of equality and diversity within policing, hate crime and transnational crime. She is the author of Global Injustice and Crime Control (Routledge, 2016), and co-author (with Liz Cain) of The Gender Agenda in an Age of Austerity (Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 2015), The Menopause and the Older Female Police Workforce′ (British Journal of Community Justice, 2019), and (with Peter Joyce) Racial and Religious Hate Crime: The UK from 1945 to Brexit (Palgrave, 2019). She sits as a member of the NPCC MAG and is the Director of Professional Policing at the University of Hull.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781526477088 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526477084 |
| Title | Policing |
| Author | Peter Joyce |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |