Full Description
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.
Contents
Part I- Policing and Use of Force. .- Chapter 1. Understanding Police Use of Force in the United States .- Chapter 2. Examining Assaults on Police Officers: An International Review of the Factors that Influence the Occurrence of these Attacks.- Chapter 3. Recalibrating Minimum Force: Some Unintended Consequences of Tom Swift's 'Electronic Rifle'.- Part II- Police Ethics and Corruption. .- Chapter 4. Understanding and Preventing Police Deviance and Corruption based on Experiences and Trends in the United States.- Chapter 5. The Contemporary Status of Ethics in Policing.- Chapter 6. Ethical Dilemmas in South African Policing and Criminal Justice.- Part III-Police and Traffic Safety. .- Chapter 7. Evaluating Strategies to Enhance Traffic Safety.- Chapter 8. Traffic Enforcement in New Zealand: A Failed Experiment?.- Chapter 9. Policing and investigating criminal activities by gangs using e-bikes, e-scooters and e-motorcycles in the United Kingdom.- Part IV-Police and Community Outreach and Collaboration.- Chapter 10. Initiatives to improve Police - Community Collaboration and Trust.- Chapter 11. Understanding the Implementation of Community-oriented Policing in the New Zealand Police.- Chapter 12. Regional Differences in the Perception of American Adolescents on Police Objectivity and Fairness.- Part V- Improving Police Service Delivery .- Chapter 13. The Role and Contribution of the Police Planner in Improving Police Service Delivery.- Chapter 14. Effective Strategies to Enhance Police Service Delivery .- Chapter 15. An Analysis of Complementary Law Enforcement: Comparing the Hungarian and South Korean Models for more effective Police Service Delivery.- Chapter 16. Afterword: Examining Contemporary Challenges in Policing.
