Special Topics in Policing: Critical Issues and Global Perspectives, Volume 1 - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3031563492 ISBN 13 : 9783031563492

Editeur : Springer, 2025

Synopsis

This book comprehensively examines five key areas of concern across the field of policing. These critical issues include: police use of force, police ethics and integrity, traffic safety, police-community collaboration, and optimizing organizational performance and service delivery. The chapters that follow provide a global, multi-faceted approach to analyze these core professional issues, examine them through sociological and theoretical lenses, and ultimately propose policy recommendations to ensure optimal professionalism and organizational effectiveness. The book focuses on issues, including:

• Enhancing public trust and confidence

• Effective crime control

• Rule of law

• Social justice

• Best procedures and practices

This book is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level students, criminal justice and law enforcement practitioners and policy makers, and criminal justice and criminology researchers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

James F. Albrecht is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Homeland Security at Pace University in New York City. Jimmy received a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship in 1998 and worked as a Professor at the National Police College of Finland.  He is also the recipient of a 2013 Embassy Policy Specialist Fellowship (USDOS/IREX) and was tasked with conducting research and making recommendations to improve law enforcement efficacy and legitimacy in Ukraine.  Police Chief Albrecht served in the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in Kosovo (former Yugoslavia) as the Head of the EULEX Police Executive Department, in charge of criminal investigations and coordinating international law enforcement cooperation and intelligence analysis from 2008 through 2010.  He had previously served in the United Nations Mission in Kosovo Police from 2007 to 2008. Jimmy is also a 23-year veteran of the NYPD who retired as the Commanding Officer of NYPD Transit Bureau District 20, tasked with the prevention of crime and terrorism in the subway and commuter transit system in New York City. He was a first responder and incident command manager at the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and developed the counter-terrorism strategic plan for the subway system in the borough of Queens, New York City.

Dr. Garth den Heyer is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University in the United States and a Senior Research Fellow with the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C. He is also a contributing faculty member at Walden University and an Associate with the Scottish Institute of Policing Research. Police Inspector den Heyer served with the New Zealand Police for 38 years, retiring as Manager of National Security. Garth also spent more than 20 months as a strategic law enforcement advisor to the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands. His primary research interests include lawenforcement, police militarization, service delivery, agency efficacy, policy development, strategic thinking, and organizational reform.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This book comprehensively examines five key areas of concern across the field of policing. These critical issues include: police use of force, police ethics and integrity, traffic safety, police-community collaboration, and optimizing organizational performance and service delivery. The chapters that follow provide a global, multi-faceted approach to analyze these core professional issues, examine them through sociological and theoretical lenses, and ultimately propose policy recommendations to ensure optimal professionalism and organizational effectiveness. The book focuses on issues, including:

• Enhancing public trust and confidence

• Effective crime control

• Rule of law

• Social justice

• Best procedures and practices

This book is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level students, criminal justice and law enforcement practitioners and policy makers, and criminal justice and criminology researchers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3031563492
• ISBN 13: 9783031563492
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
• Éditeur: Albrecht James F., Den Heyer Garth
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