Handbook of Policing

The Handbook of Policing provides a comprehensive and highly readable overview of policing in UK. This expanded and updated second edition builds on the strenghts of the enormously successful first edtion and will further strengthtn its reputation as the essential text for anybody involved in the study of policing, as well as being a key source of reference for the police themselves.The Handbook has been fully updated throughout to take account of the most recent developments and scholarship. For the first time the Handbook includes dedicated chapters on policing in Scotland and Northern Island, as well as entirely new contributions on police cultures, police use of force, policing and terrorism, leadership and performance management and policing and forensic science.The Handbook of Policing is divided into four major sections. The first considers policing in its comparative and historical context; the second the circumstances in which policing takes place, including the relationship of policing to other forms of security provision and private policing. The third section looks at how the police operate, with sections on the analysis and investigation of crime, approaches to crime prevention, community safety, drugs, terrorism and organised crime, and the final section looks at a range of key issues and debates in contemporary policing, ranging from forensic science to race and gender, ethics and restorative justice.