Policing Across the World: Issues for the Twenty-First Century

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ISBN: 9781857284881 | 1857284887
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/1/1999

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The importance of a comparative approach to the study of policing is increasingly recognized by criminologists and police alike. In Policing across the World, a distinguished team of international experts provides a wide-ranging survey of policing systems and of key issues confronting the police, in countries ranging from Japan to Russia to the United States.

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Notes on Contributors	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. x
An Introduction to Comparative Policing
Introduction	p. 1
Policing: the World Stage	p. 3
Approaches to Comparative Analysis: the Impossibility of Becoming an Expert on Everywhere	p. 13
Police Systems Across the World
Introduction	p. 23
Variations on a Theme: the Development of Professional Police in the British Isles and North America	p. 28
Internationalization: a Challenge to Police Organizations in Europe	p. 59
Post-Socialist Policing: Limitations on Institutional Change	p. 75
Post-Colonial Systems	p. 88
Policing in Japan: East Asian Archetype?	p. 109
Policing Issues in International Perspective
Introduction	p. 127
Government and Accountability of the Police	p. 132
Armed and Unarmed Policing	p. 151
Community Policing as Cherry Pie	p. 167
Police Services for Crime Victims	p. 187
Policewomen: an International Comparison	p. 204
Private Policing: Uniformity and Diversity	p. 226
Index	p. 239
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