Critical analyses of policing have accompanied accounts of the police since the early days of modern police organisations. More so than ever, police and policing are subject to close and critical scrutiny from governments and the public. It is timely, therefore, to consider what is critical about police and policing.
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies brings together scholars and practitioners to critically explore the full continuum of safety governance from police reforms to the redistribution of policing resources to the replacement of state police. In offering the three Rs of policing-reform, redistribute, replace-we provide a conceptualisation of critical policing studies that acknowledges a continuum of policing that mirrors the different trajectories, priorities, and possibilities that exist across different cultural and historical contexts. This collection is composed of 65 scholars and practitioners across 39 chapters, edited by a team of police pracademics and policing scholars, to showcase accounts of policing from outside the Anglo-European metropole, privileging works from First Nations people and from the Global South, and presenting contextualised solutions to the problems facing police and communities.
This Handbook identifies the key issues facing the police and safety governance across the globe and offers insights into the implications for policing theory and practice, proposing solutions to some of the most intransigent problems facing contemporary societies. Individually, and as a collection, this Handbook will be an essential read for scholars, practitioners, and activists alike.
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"Confirming and confronting of old truths while simultaneously offering new approaches to the policing praxis, this book is thought provoking, intellectually challenging, and entirely relevant. For origins to future trajectories, each aspect of policing is tackled in a multifaceted and multilayered manner reflecting at its core a careful weighing up and ethical reckoning of the police narrative."
Professor Rob White, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Criminology, University of Tasmania, Australia
"The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies is a well-constructed compilation of global scholarship that challenges traditional beliefs about policing. The book also provides measured critiques of traditional policing, inequality, and injustice in policing, while offering critical reflections and potential new directions in policing."
Dr Wendell Wallace, Coordinator, Mediation Studies Unit, University of West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago
"Honouring policing's aspirations-and more importantly protecting and elevating a society's most vulnerable members-requires that we question the status quo with a sharp critical lens. That is what this volume does so well: taking a broad, global scope, it provides fresh and rigorous thinking about some of the most vexing challenges of modern policing."
Dr Brandon del Pozo, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, USA
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Nicole L. Asquith is Professor of Policing at the University of Tasmania, and Convenor of the Australian Hate Crime Network. Her research primarily focusses on victimisation and justice, including landmark studies into hate crime, sexual violence, honour-based violence, and family and domestic violence. She is a critical policing scholar, who has worked with and for policing organisations in Australia and the UK for over 20 years, and is the co-author of Policing Practices and Vulnerable People (2021) and Crime & Criminology (2023), and coeditor of Policing Encounters with Vulnerability (2017) and Policing Vulnerability (2012).
Jess Rodgers is a research associate at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania. They have undertaken research work in a wide range of topics, including policing domestic violence, small town policing, ableism in academia, and transgender people in prisons. Recently, they have published as leading authors in Police Practice and Research, International Journal of Police Science and Management, International Journal of Rural Criminology, and Higher Education Research and Development. They are passionate about closing the research to practice gap and working closely with government and organisations to institute robust evidence-based policy and practice.
James Clover is a retired police officer from the Edmonton Police Service, and former instructor at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was awarded the 2018 International Police Officer of the Year, by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, for his practitioner work in the field of law enforcement and public health. In 2021, James was named Police Fellow for the Global Law Enforcement and Public Safety Association.
Gary Cordner is Academic Director in the Education and Training Section of the Baltimore Police Department (USA). He is Professor Emeritus at both Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and Eastern Kentucky University, where he served as Dean of the College of Justice & Safety. He was founding editor of Police Quarterly and is past editor of the American Journal of Police. Earlier in his career he was a police officer and police chief in Maryland and obtained his PhD from Michigan State University.
Angela Dwyer is Associate Professor in Policing at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Her research on LGBTIQ-police relationships contributed to founding the discipline area of queer criminology, and this was acknowledged by being made the 2023 recipient of the Western Society of Criminology Richard Tewksbury award. She was also founding co-chair of the Division of Queer Criminology at the American Society of Criminology.
Rishweena Ahmed is Chief Inspector at the Maldives Police Service. Her recent submission of a PhD thesis on criminal desistance in the context of the Global South underscores her commitment to advancing knowledge in policing and criminology. Chief Inspector Ahmed is also an experienced police educator and has been instrumental in designing numerous inservice programmes and tertiary-level courses for serving police officers. Presently, serving as a police commander, she leverages her expertise to tackle contemporary challenges in law enforcement in the island nation of the Maldives.
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Western Sydney University, Australia
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Professor Emeritus, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
University of Tasmania, Australia
List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsForewordAcknowledgments
SECTION I. Conceptual Frameworks
1 'Who ya gonna call?' Peelian ghosts, contemporary contradictions, and conceptualising critical policing studies
Nicole L. Asquith, Jess Rodgers, Gary Cordner, Angela Dwyer, James Clover, and Rishweena Ahmed
2 Origin stories and the possibilities of policing
Jonah Miller
3 Policing and the myth of public safety
Amanda Porter
SECTION II. Reform the Police
4 Reforming policing
Gary Cordner and Rishweena Ahmed
5 Reformism, abolitionism and the structural context of policework
Roger Grimshaw, Tony Jefferson
6 Reform and the policing of gender violence: specialist stations in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jess Rodgers, Kerry Carrington, Maria Victoria Puyol, Maximo Sozzo, and Vanessa Ryan
7 Decoding of restorative justice practices: Evidence from Indian police stations
Michael L. Valan
8 Desistance-led policing in the Maldives: A new way of policing persistent offenders
Rishweena Ahmed
9 Policing indigenous communities in Canada
John Kiedrowski, Nicholas A. Jones, and John Domm
10 Rethinking community policing in Fiji
Anand Chand
11 'Light touch' police reform: The Tonga Police Development Program
Tyler Cawthray
12 Citizens' trust and legitimacy in the police in Africa
Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh
13 Professionalising a profession: The PEQF and policing in England and Wales
Jennifer Hough and David Marshall
14 National levers for reform of decentralised policing systems
James Harris and Gary Cordner
SECTION III. Redistribute Public Safety
15 Redistributing resources, rank, and relationships to reduce harm in public safety responses
Angela Dwyer and James Clover
16 Propinquity and public safety
Nicole Asquith and Jess Rodgers
17 Crowdsourcing in missing person investigations: Opportunities for police to foster public trust
Scott Duncan
18 When we need you, we will call you': Policing through social contract in a localised health setting
Monique Marks and Dhiya Pillay Matai
19 The policing of dis/ability
Cameron Russell and Clare Farmer
20 Arts and policing: imagining new approaches to police-community relationships?
Rachel Lewis and Jacqueline S. Hodgson
21 Policing African migrants in Australia
Samuel Sakama and Joseph Chitambo
22 Lost in translation: Policing and alternatives to mental health crisis
Sabrina C. Taylor and Heather M. Ross
23 Missing communities: A novel approach to police-community partnership
Maureen Taylor and Dave Grimstead
24 Envisaging the future of community safety and wellbeing: Practical examples of policing and public health collaborations
Carla Chan Unger, Nick Crofts, and Auke van Dijk
25 Civic heroes or untrained allies? A critical examination of bystander intervention in co-production policing
Nick Evans
26 Beyond communities and securitarianism: Plural security in Umbria
Stefano Anastasia, Antonino Azzara, and Vincenzo Scalia
SECTION IV. Replace the Police
27 Building up, not breaking down: Replacing systems of exclusion and harm
Jess Rodgers and Nicole Asquith
28 Police reformism and the challenges of decolonialism and abolitionism
Chris Cunneen
29 The failed Indigenisation experiment: a critical analysis of the state-of-exception policing in Aotearoa New Zealand
Adele N. Norris, Antje Deckert, and Juan Tauri
30 Policing of urban margins, police accountability and contested Human Rights: An enquiry into a Chilean neighbourhood
Gonzalo Garcia-Campo Almendros and Pascual Cortes
31 An Elders-led response to the criminalisation of Aboriginal Young People in a Remote Community
Peta MacGillivray, Virginia Robinson and Ruth McCausland
32 The Rojava revolution and alternative models of policing
Hawzhin Azeez
33 Freedom House: A critical counternarrative
Tiffany Yang
34 Sex workers, work! Anticarceral practices to criminalisation
Alisson Rowland
35 Reclaiming public safety: How lessons from harm reduction can help us realise a police-free future
Phillip Wadds and George Dertadian
36 Crowdsourcing as a strategy to monitor police drug dog detection operations in New South Wales: The 'Sniff Off' case study
Justin R. Ellis
37 Pain compliance, disability, and state accountability: Lessons from Chile and Colombia on the form and function of less lethal weapons
Javier Eduardo Velasquez Valenzuela and Lucia Guerrero Riviere
38 Confronting the unconfronted: Colonial legacies and policing in the Swedish suburb
Amanda Lanigan and Noor Nassef
39 Considerations for Police Abolition in the Global South
Leighann Spencer
