The Police and Social Conflict
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-1-904385-23-3 (ISBN)
Description
Policing remains one of the most controversial areas of criminal justice. Recent years have seen major changes in every aspect of policing: new constructions of the police mission, new ways of delivering police services and new arrangements for police accountability.
The police have had to respond to international terrorism, international organized crime, the new faces of migration and asylum, globalization and the reconstitution of societies in the post-Communist and Islamic world. This completely revised second edition argues that through these changes enduring and fundamental divisions can be traced.
The book is relevant to those studying criminology, police studies, sociology, social policy and law, wherever their interests touch on the police.
The police have had to respond to international terrorism, international organized crime, the new faces of migration and asylum, globalization and the reconstitution of societies in the post-Communist and Islamic world. This completely revised second edition argues that through these changes enduring and fundamental divisions can be traced.
The book is relevant to those studying criminology, police studies, sociology, social policy and law, wherever their interests touch on the police.
Reviews / Votes
'Prof Fielding, of the University of Surrey, has provided a well-written and stimulating analysis of the complex, diverse and evolving character and context of policing in Britain in the early 21st century. This is academic work as it should be: grounded in reality, critical where necessary, and taking the longer view'. Police Review 3 February 2006 page 17More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904385-23-3 (9781904385233)
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Nigel Fielding
The Police and Social Conflict
E-Book
09/2017
1st Edition
Routledge Cavendish
€78.99
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Nigel Fielding
The Police and Social Conflict
E-Book
09/2017
1st Edition
Routledge Cavendish
€78.99
Available for download
Person
Nigel Fielding is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. His principal research interests are in policing and in social research methods. He was editor of the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice from 1985 to 1998, and amongst his works in the field of criminology are Joining Forces: Police Training, Socialisation and Occupational Competence (Routledge, 1988), Negotiating Nothing: Police Decision-making in Disputes (with C. Kemp and C. Norris; Avebury, 1992), Community Policing (Clarendon, 1995), The Economic Dimensions of Crime (editor, with A. Clarke and R. Witt; Macmillan, 2000), and Courting Violence (Clarendon, forthcoming in 2006).
Content
Policing and Social Conflict. A Golden Age of Policing? Paramilitary Policing and Public Order. Civil Policing and Order Maintenance. Managing Social Conflict: Armaments, Alliances, Divisions. Governance, Performance Management and the Politics of Social Conflict. Tomorrow's Headlines Today