Introducing Policing Challenges for Police & Australian Communities

by Findlay, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780195516210
• ISBN10: 0195516214
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book is a concise introductory exploration of policing in contemporary Australia. It looks at policing within specific modern Australian institutions, while reflecting on the development of civil policing in all its forms, and across many states and privates settings. Policing is viewed in the wider sense of regulatory and power relations as demonstrated through the essential and often problematic relationships between police and diverse communities.

Author Biography

Mark Findlay teaches and researches comparative criminal law at the University of Sydney, and Nottingham Law School and is internationally recognized for his work in this area. He is also an advisor to governments and international agencies on crime control and criminal justice.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction: Policing Australia	vii
Concepts of Police and Policing	1	(14)
Policing Histories	15	(13)
Police Ideologies and Community Policing	28	(13)
Police Function: Criminal Investigation and Specialisation	41	(16)
Alternative Policing	57	(13)
Police Discretion and Police Powers	70	(16)
Police Accountability and Regulation	86	(14)
Cop Culture, Police Malpractice and Prospects for Change	100	(14)
Policing Social Divisions	114	(16)
Police Professionalism	130	(14)
Police and Popular Culture	144	(13)
Agendas for Reform: New Policing?	157	(19)
Bibliography	176	(15)
Index	191