Hard Cop, Soft Cop

This a book about policing styles in the broadest sense, looking at zero tolerance policing at one extreme and 'softer' approaches to policing at the other. On the one hand there has been clear popular support for zero policing strategies, whilst proponents of softer approaches to policing have argued that there has been little evidence that such initiatives do actually in themselves reduce crime, and risk generating social unrest.This book is particularly concerned to explore the dilemmas and moral ambiguities inherent in the tensions between different policing approaches. Rather than seeking to juxtapose 'hard' and 'soft' policing styles the guiding thread of the book is the notion that policing is both pervasive and insidious. Different policing styles, whether conducted by the public police service, private security or social work agencies, are all part of a multi-agency corporate crime control industry which provides the essential context for an understanding of these different approaches.

Mark Button is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth Chris Crowther is Principal Lecturer in Criminology and Community Justice at Sheffield Hallam University Roger Hopkins Burke is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University Andrew Karmen earned a PhD in sociology from Columbia University in 1977 and since the following year has been a member of the Sociology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University, New York City Kavita Modi currently works in the Human Rights Department at Leigh, Day & Co. Solicitors Ruth Morrill now works for the London Probation Service delivery accredited treatment programmes (to offenders). Mandy Shaw is Senior Lecturer at the Nottingham Trent University Graham Smith is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Nottingham Trent University Basia Spalek is a Lecturer in Criminology within the Institute of Applied Social Studies at Birmingham University Paul Sparrow is Head of the Division of Criminology at the Nottingham Trent University Mike Sutton is Reader in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University Nick Tilley is at Nottingham Trent University, where he is Professor of Sociology John Wadham is currently Deputy Director of the Independent Police Complaints Commission David Webb is Senior Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University Colin Webster is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Teesside Lorna White Sansom is Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. She is currently completing her PhD on 'stalking' Alick Whyte spent nearly thirty years as a provost officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the security officer for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Belgium and retired in 1993 as a wing commander to take up a Civil Service appointment as a police adviser to the British Forces in Germany. He has had extensive contact with police forces throughout the world including the Middle East, Singapore, the USA and Europe. In 2002 he finally retired, returning to Newark in Nottinghamshire where he lives with his family