Policing in an Age of Reform

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Introduction to Policing in an Age of Reform

   • Timothy Parsons, James J. Nolan, Frank Crispino

   Pages 1-15

3. Changing the Game: A Sociological Perspective on Police Reform

   • James J. Nolan, Joshua C. Hinkle, Zsolt Molnar

   Pages 17-32

4. Community Policing: Often Advocated, Rarely Practiced

   • Timothy Parsons

   Pages 33-47

5. Policing in an Age of Reform—An Overview of the United Kingdom Community-Centred Police Model

   • Victor Olisa

   Pages 49-60

6. Community Dynamics, Collective Efficacy, and Police Reform

   • James J. Nolan, Joshua C. Hinkle

   Pages 61-83

7. Policing Hate Crime: Dilemmas in Policy and Practice

   • Robert Lambert

   Pages 85-99

8. Police Responses to Islamist Radicalisation and Violent Extremism

   • Timothy Parsons

   Pages 101-115

9. Forensic Science Understanding by Police Managers: New Opportunities to Re-think Its Involvement in Policing

   • Frank Crispino, Vincent Mousseau, Simon Baechler, Olivier Delémont, Claude Roux, Olivier Ribaux

   Pages 117-131

10. “So, How Are We Doing…?” Issues and Considerations in the Design of Police Performance Measurements

    • James Brown

    Pages 133-149

11. Co-Operation Between the Police and Civil Society Organisations in the Field of Anti-Discrimination

    • Danijela Petković

    Pages 151-172

12. Digital Transformations in Forensic Science and Their Impact on Policing

    • Olivier Ribaux, Olivier Delémont, Simon Baechler, Claude Roux, Frank Crispino

    Pages 173-191

13. Tools for a New Situational Policing

    • James J. Nolan, Joshua C. Hinkle

    Pages 193-212

14. The Use of Social Media in Intelligence and Its Impact on Police Work

    • Francis Fortin, Julie Delle Donne, Justine Knop

    Pages 213-231

15. “Doing Right”: Police Ethics in an Age of Reform

    • James J. Nolan, Timothy Parsons, Frank Crispino

    Pages 233-250

16. The Allegory of the Dangerous Intersection: A Structural View of Law Enforcement and Social Problems

    • James J. Nolan

    Pages 251-268

17. Conclusions and Future Directions in Policing

    • James J. Nolan, Timothy Parsons, Frank Crispino

    Pages 269-273

18. Back Matter

    Pages 275-279

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This book tackles the contentious issue of policing in an age of controversy and uncertainty. It is a timely book written by police scholars — predominantly former practitioners from Europe, Australia and North America — who draw from their own research and operational experiences to illuminate key issues relating to police reform in the present day. While acknowledging some relevance of usual proposed models, such as problem-solving, evidence-based policing and procedural justice, the contributors provide an insider look at a variety of perspectives and approaches to police reform which have emerged in recent decades. It invites university students, criminologists, social scientists, police managers, forensic scientists to question and adapt their perspectives on a broad range of topics such as community policing, hate crime, Islamic radicalisation, neighborhood dynamics, situational policing, antidiscrimination and civil society, police ethics, performance measures, and advances in forensic science, technology, intelligence and more in an accessible and comprehensive manner. 

• Radicalisation
• Violent Extremism
• Policing Challenges
• Police Ethics
• Policing and Social Media
• Situational Policing
• Predictive Policing
• Forensic Science
• Police Performance
• Anti-discrimination
• Crime and Violence
• Risk
• Police Models
• Community Policing
• Crime Prevention
• policing
• violence and crime

• Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

  James J. Nolan

• Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière, Québec, Canada

  Frank Crispino

• School of Justice Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

  Timothy Parsons

James Nolan is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at West Virginia University, USA. His recent research focuses on neighborhood dynamics and policing.

Frank Crispino is Director of the Forensic Science Research Group at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada, and regular researcher of the International Center for Comparative Criminology.

Timothy Parsons is Visiting Lecturer in Police Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He served 30 years with the City of London Police and has lectured on the topics of policing, police reform, Islamism and violent extremism in 25 countries advising both police forces and national governments.

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