By Geoff Pearson and Mike Rowe.

Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice analyses the utilisation, regulation and legitimacy of police powers. Drawing upon six-years of ethnographic research in two police forces in England, this book uncovers the importance of time and place, supervision and monitoring, local policies and law. Covering a period when the police were under intense scrutiny and subject to austerity measures, the authors contend that the concept of police culture does not help us understand police discretion. They argue that change is a dominant feature of policing and identify fragmented responses to law and policy reform, varying between police stations, across different policing roles, and between senior and frontline ranks.

Hart Publishing (2020) 243 pages.

By Mahesh K. Nalla and Graeme R. Newman.

Way ahead of its time, in this classic text the authors convincingly introduce social science theory and methods to the field of private security. While they deal with the various approaches to private security including management styles and adaptations of regular policing styles, the significant innovation is the introduction of situational crime prevention -- at the time virtually unknown in the private policing field -- as a major tool of private security. Situational crime prevention today is widely used to solve a broad range of crime problems from car theft to terrorism, so remains even more relevant to private security than ever before. If you work in the private security or private policing field, indeed even regular public policing, this is a must read.

By Amada Armenta

Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville's local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging.

By Percy Fitzgerald

With an account of the magistrates, “runners” and police; and a selection of the most interesting cases. By Percy Fitzgerald, in two volumes. f.s.a. vol. 1. with numerous illustrations.

London— Chapman and Hall, Ltd. (1888) 382 pages.

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By Patrick Colquhoun.

Containing an Historical View of the Trade of the Port of London and Suggesting Means for Preventing the Depredations Thereon. “Excerpt from A Treatise on the Commerce and Police of the River Thames: Containing an Historical View of the Trade of the Port of London, and Suggesting Means for Preventing the Depredations Thereon, by a Legislative System of River Police. The Subject is in many respects new; while the Details which are given will be found interesting in no common degree; inasmuch as the renovation of the Morals of a numerous body of Individuals, and the protection of vast masses of Commercial Property against Fraud and Depredation, is the principal object in view. In discussing a great variety of topics, which will come under the review of the Reader in this Treatise, almost every rank of Society will find beneficial Information but particularly those Classes who are concerned in Navigation and Commerce, 'and who follow Nautical Pursuits.

London: J. Mawman, 1900. 676p

Georgios Leventakis M. R. Haberfeld Editors.

Presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. “Community-oriented policing” is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to enhance trust and legitimacy of police by the community (and vice versa), and focus on engaging the community crime prevention and detection efforts for sustainable, long-term crime reduction.

(2018) 110 pages.

By R. G. Macbeth.

Being The Real Life Record Of The Famous Royal North-West Mounted Police . “…it is not the young constable himself that counts so mightily, though he is a likely looking fellow enough who could be cool anywhere and who could give ample evidence of possessing those muscles of steel which count in a hand-to-hand encounter. But you see he is one of that widely known body of men called the Royal North-West Mounted Police.

Hidden and Stoughton Ltd. (1921) 247 pages.

By P. Colquhoun.

Containing a detail of the Various crimes and misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. the sixth edition, corrected and considerably enlarged. Acting as a Magistrate for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex.—For the City and Liberty of Westminster, and for the Liberty of the Tower of London. (1806) 31 pages.

By Radha Kumar. Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police acted as tools of the state in deploying rigid notions of caste, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows.

Cornell University Press (2021) 249 pages.

A Historical Sketch 1672-1916

By S. M. Edwardes. “A perusal of the official records of the early period of British rule in Bombay indicates that the credit of first establishing a force for the prevention of crime and the protection of the inhabitants belongs to Gerald Aungier, who was appointed Governor of he Island in 1669 and filled that office with conspicuous ability until his death in Surat in 1677.”

Oxford University Press (1923) 240.

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THE UNKNOWN STORY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR CRIMINOLOGY.

ISBN: 978-1-78735-617-7 (PDF)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787356177

Jeremy Bentham’s ideas on punishment are famous. Every criminology student learns about Bentham, and every criminologist contends with him, as advocate or opponent. This discourse concerns his ideas about punishment, namely with respect to legislation and the panopticon. Yet, scholars and students are generally ignorant of Bentham’s ideas on police. Hitherto, these ideas have been largely unknowable. Now, thanks to UCL’s Bentham Project, these ideas are public. Jeremy Bentham on Police celebrates this achievement by exploring the story of Bentham’s writings on police and considering their relevance to the past, present and future of criminology

Prepared for Mark and Elena Patterson. In memoriam Luke Patterson

.This report summarizes what is currently known about killings committed by police officers in the United States and identifies existing evidence about various ways to prevent them. A relatively large body of research on these topics exists, but these studies often suffer from methodological shortcomings, largely stemming from the dearth of available data on police killings. Recognizing the need for more-rigorous work to guide efforts to reform police—and, more specifically, to reduce police killings—this report presents work focused on the development of a research agenda, or a road map, to reduce police killings. The report, based on an extensive literature review as well as interviews with policing experts, presents a series of recommendations for areas in which research efforts may be most effective in helping inform policymaking and decisionmaking aimed at reducing police killings.

Police are one of the only institutions in the United States allowed to use force to coerce civilian compliance with laws and government decisions. In some cases, force—even fatal force—is needed to maintain the safety of the general public. But too often, excessive force is used against civilians, and this is the target of current police reform efforts in the United States. Sustained attention to and momentum toward reducing police killings had been lacking until May 2020, when the highly publicized murder of George Floyd was committed. Contributing to the current national conversation, this report summarizes what is currently known about killings committed by police in the United States and identifies existing evidence about various ways to prevent them.

RAND 2022. 80p.

Thanks to our partners the Center for Problem Oriented Policing, we are proud to make available these wonderful, useful guides for police around the world, especially if they are primarily interested in preventing crime, in contrast to arresting perpetrators after the crime has been done.

By Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean

In the United States, the exercise of police authority—and the public’s trust that police authority is used properly—is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would trust the police more and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police. In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seems to offer relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory. A procedural justice model of policing is likely to be only loosely coupled with police practice, despite the best intentions, and improvements in procedural justice on the part of police are unlikely to result in corresponding improvements in citizens’ perceptions of procedural justice.

ISBN: 9780520292413. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.30