Tag: Policing

Free Download Vicky Conway, "Policing Twentieth Century Ireland: A History of An Garda Síochána"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 041569194X, 1138899984 | PDF | pages: 288 | 18.2 mb
The twentieth century was a time of rapid social change in Ireland: from colonial rule to independence, civil war and later the Troubles; from poverty to globalisation and the Celtic Tiger; and from the rise to the fall of the Catholic Church. Policing in Ireland has been shaped by all of these changes. This book critically evaluates the creation of the new police force, an Garda Síochána, in the 1920s and analyses how this institution was influenced by and responded to these substantial changes.

Free Download Aogan Mulcahy, "Policing Northern Ireland: Conflict, legitimacy and reform"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1843920735 | PDF | pages: 244 | 9.0 mb
This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, providing an account and analysis of the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of ‘the troubles’ in the 1960s to the early 1990s, through the uneasy peace that followed the 1994 paramilitary ceasefires (1994-1998), and then its transformation into the Police Service of Northern Ireland following the 1999 Patten Report. A major concern is with the reform process, and the way that the RUC has faced and sought to remedy a situation where it faced a chronic legitimacy deficit.

Free Download Policing White Supremacy: The Enemy Within by Mike German, Beth Zasloff
English | January 7th, 2025 | ISBN: 1620977060 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 6.07 MB
A former FBI agent’s urgent call for law enforcement to prioritize far-right violence and end tolerance for police racism

Free Download Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti, "A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing: Governing Insecurity in Urban Brazil "
English | ISBN: 1138584703 | 2020 | 164 pages | EPUB | 1273 KB
A Southern Criminology of Violence, Youth and Policing examinespublic experiences of insecurity and the social impacts of security programmes that aim to address violence in Brazil. This book contributes to the emerging field of southern criminology by engaging with the perils faced by people living in ‘favelas’ in Brazil and critically investigating the discourse of state actors. It combines original ethnographic data with critical analysis to expand understandings of violence and control in urban and postcolonial contexts.

Free Download Policing Public Protection: A Companion Guide
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031745035 | 414 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB
This book explores the effective policing of public protection issues, from chapter authors with varied research and practitioner experience. The collection is aimed at detective police officers in specialist units, response and neighbourhood officers, as well as new recruits in policing public protection. Each chapter offers an understanding of victimology, perpetration, and the effective policing and investigation of such crimes. It explores questions such as why crimes happen, who the victims are, what perpetrators do, and why they might target certain victims. This book explores international literature, the evidence base, past mistakes, and what effective and professional policing should ‘look like’. The intention is to improve the policing and investigation of such complex crimes. Each chapter provides a concise summary, a comprehensive literature review, and a list of key actions for practice that officers should consider. It closes with a list of key resources. These chapters specifically cover the following thematic crime areas such as domestic abuse, child sexual abuse, gendered violence, and trafficking. This book also speaks to local authorities (Social Services, Trading Standards), professionals in Education, Health and Probation, academics, and Non-Government Organisations (NGO) in the charitable sector.

Free Download Clive Harfield, Allyson MacVean, "Policing (SAGE Course Companions series)"
English | 2007 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 1412935423, 1412935431 | PDF | 1,4 mb
This is the first course guide that has been developed for students of policing. It identifies the core themes and additional source material, providing an essential overview for students and a reference point for use throughout their studies.

Free Download Policing Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: The View from South Wales by Martin Innes, Trudy Lowe, Gareth Madge
English | January 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1837720843 | 272 pages | PDF | 1.82 Mb
A timely examination of the purpose of policing in Wales.

Free Download Cynthia Lum, "Evidence-Based Policing: Translating Research into Practice"
English | ISBN: 0198719949 | 2017 | 348 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Today’s police agencies are in a period of both crisis and reform as they try to improve their ability to deliver public safety to citizens in ways that are effective, legitimate, and sustainable. Evidence-based policing offers one such solution – an approach which emphasises the value that research can bring to police officers and, by extension, the public they serve.

Free Download Carole Rawcliffe, "Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe "
English | ISBN: 9462985197 | 2019 | 318 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment. Overturning many preconceptions about medieval dirt and squalor, it presents the most outstanding recent scholarship on how public health norms were enforced in the judicial, religious and socio-cultural sphere before the advent of modern medicine and the nation-state, crossing geographical and linguistic boundaries and engaging with factors such as spiritual purity, civic pride and good neighbourliness.

Free Download Challenges of Contemporary Policing: Higher Education, Technology, and Officers’ Well-Being (Advances in Police Theory and Practice) by Vicente Riccio, Di Jia, Dilip K. Das
English | October 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1032589671 | 234 pages | MOBI | 1.57 Mb
This edited collection reflects contemporary challenges faced by police forces across the globe and the role of technology in addressing them. The use of science and technology raises questions about ethics, training, the well-being of people, and freedom. New technologies promise to foster police practices based on intelligence, accuracy, and preparedness, and are considered necessary to overcome challenges such as declining budgets, lack of personnel, and legitimacy. However, technologies can also be used for authoritarian and nefarious purposes. For those reasons, this book aims to discuss related topics from various contexts to establish connections among common problems in the field of policing across the globe.