Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-51113-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 550 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

Critical analyses of policing have accompanied accounts of the police since the early days of modern police organisations. More so than ever, police and policing are subject to close and critical scrutiny from governments and the public. It is timely, therefore, to consider what is critical about police and policing.

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies brings together scholars and practitioners to critically explore the full continuum of safety governance from police reforms to the redistribution of policing resources to the replacement of state police. In offering the three Rs of policing—reform, redistribute, replace—we provide a conceptualisation of critical policing studies that acknowledges a continuum of policing that mirrors the different trajectories, priorities, and possibilities that exist across different cultural and historical contexts. This collection is composed of 65 scholars and practitioners across 39 chapters, edited by a team of police pracademics and policing scholars, to showcase accounts of policing from outside the Anglo-European metropole, privileging works from First Nations people and from the Global South, and presenting contextualised solutions to the problems facing police and communities.

This Handbook identifies the key issues facing the police and safety governance across the globe and offers insights into the implications for policing theory and practice, proposing solutions to some of the most intransigent problems facing contemporary societies. Individually, and as a collection, this Handbook will be an essential read for scholars, practitioners, and activists alike.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dwyer, Angela

Asquith, Nicole L.

Cordner, Gary

Rodgers, Jess

Clover, James

Ahmed, Rishweena

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments

SECTION I. Conceptual Frameworks

1 ‘Who ya gonna call?’ Peelian ghosts, contemporary contradictions, and conceptualising critical policing studies

Nicole L. Asquith, Jess Rodgers, Gary Cordner, Angela Dwyer, James Clover, and Rishweena Ahmed

2 Origin stories and the possibilities of policing

Jonah Miller

3 Policing and the myth of public safety

Amanda Porter

SECTION II. Reform the Police

4 Reforming policing

Gary Cordner and Rishweena Ahmed

5 Reformism, abolitionism and the structural context of policework

Roger Grimshaw, Tony Jefferson

6 Reform and the policing of gender violence: specialist stations in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jess Rodgers, Kerry Carrington, María Victoria Puyol, Máximo Sozzo, and Vanessa Ryan

7 Decoding of restorative justice practices: Evidence from Indian police stations

Michael L. Valan

8 Desistance-led policing in the Maldives: A new way of policing persistent offenders

Rishweena Ahmed

9 Policing indigenous communities in Canada

John Kiedrowski, Nicholas A. Jones, and John Domm

10 Rethinking community policing in Fiji

Anand Chand

11 ‘Light touch’ police reform: The Tonga Police Development Program

Tyler Cawthray

12 Citizens’ trust and legitimacy in the police in Africa

Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh

13 Professionalising a profession: The PEQF and policing in England and Wales

Jennifer Hough and David Marshall

14 National levers for reform of decentralised policing systems

James Harris and Gary Cordner

SECTION III. Redistribute Public Safety

15 Redistributing resources, rank, and relationships to reduce harm in public safety responses

Angela Dwyer and James Clover

16 Propinquity and public safety

Nicole Asquith and Jess Rodgers

17 Crowdsourcing in missing person investigations: Opportunities for police to foster public trust

Scott Duncan

18 When we need you, we will call you’: Policing through social contract in a localised health setting

Monique Marks and Dhiya Pillay Matai

19 The policing of dis/ability

Cameron Russell and Clare Farmer

20 Arts and policing: imagining new approaches to police-community relationships?

Rachel Lewis and Jacqueline S. Hodgson

21 Policing African migrants in Australia

Samuel Sakama and Joseph Chitambo

22 Lost in translation: Policing and alternatives to mental health crisis

Sabrina C. Taylor and Heather M. Ross

23 Missing communities: A novel approach to police-community partnership

Maureen Taylor and Dave Grimstead

24 Envisaging the future of community safety and wellbeing: Practical examples of policing and public health collaborations

Carla Chan Unger, Nick Crofts, and Auke van Dijk

25 Civic heroes or untrained allies? A critical examination of bystander intervention in co-production policing

Nick Evans

26 Beyond communities and securitarianism: Plural security in Umbria

Stefano Anastasia, Antonino Azzarà, and Vincenzo Scalia

SECTION IV. Replace the Police

27 Building up, not breaking down: Replacing systems of exclusion and harm

Jess Rodgers and Nicole Asquith

28 Police reformism and the challenges of decolonialism and abolitionism

Chris Cunneen

29 The failed Indigenisation experiment: a critical analysis of the state-of-exception policing in Aotearoa New Zealand

Adele N. Norris, Antje Deckert, and Juan Tauri

30 Policing of urban margins, police accountability and contested Human Rights: An enquiry into a Chilean neighbourhood

Gonzalo García-Campo Almendros and Pascual Cortés

31 An Elders-led response to the criminalisation of Aboriginal Young People in a Remote Community

Peta MacGillivray, Virginia Robinson and Ruth McCausland

32 The Rojava revolution and alternative models of policing

Hawzhin Azeez

33 Freedom House: A critical counternarrative

Tiffany Yang

34 Sex workers, work! Anticarceral practices to criminalisation

Alisson Rowland

35 Reclaiming public safety: How lessons from harm reduction can help us realise a police-free future

Phillip Wadds and George Dertadian

36 Crowdsourcing as a strategy to monitor police drug dog detection operations in New South Wales: The ‘Sniff Off’ case study

Justin R. Ellis

37 Pain compliance, disability, and state accountability: Lessons from Chile and Colombia on the form and function of less lethal weapons

Javier Eduardo Velásquez Valenzuela and Lucía Guerrero Rivière

38 Confronting the unconfronted: Colonial legacies and policing in the Swedish suburb

Amanda Lanigan and Noor Nassef

39 Considerations for Police Abolition in the Global South

Leighann Spencer

Über Autor(innen)

Nicole L. Asquith is Professor of Policing at the University of Tasmania, and Convenor of the Australian Hate Crime Network. Her research primarily focusses on victimisation and justice, including landmark studies into hate crime, sexual violence, honour-based violence, and family and domestic violence. She is a critical policing scholar, who has worked with and for policing organisations in Australia and the UK for over 20 years, and is the co-author of Policing Practices and Vulnerable People (2021) and Crime & Criminology (2023), and coeditor of Policing Encounters with Vulnerability (2017) and Policing Vulnerability (2012).

Jess Rodgers is a research associate at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania. They have undertaken research work in a wide range of topics, including policing domestic violence, small town policing, ableism in academia, and transgender people in prisons. Recently, they have published as leading authors in Police Practice and Research, International Journal of Police Science and Management, International Journal of Rural Criminology, and Higher Education Research and Development. They are passionate about closing the research to practice gap and working closely with government and organisations to institute robust evidence-based policy and practice.

James Clover is a retired police officer from the Edmonton Police Service, and former instructor at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was awarded the 2018 International Police Officer of the Year, by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, for his practitioner work in the field of law enforcement and public health. In 2021, James was named Police Fellow for the Global Law Enforcement and Public Safety Association.

Gary Cordner is Academic Director in the Education and Training Section of the Baltimore Police Department (USA). He is Professor Emeritus at both Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and Eastern Kentucky University, where he served as Dean of the College of Justice & Safety. He was founding editor of Police Quarterly and is past editor of the American Journal of Police. Earlier in his career he was a police officer and police chief in Maryland and obtained his PhD from Michigan State University.

Angela Dwyer is Associate Professor in Policing at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Her research on LGBTIQ-police relationships contributed to founding the discipline area of queer criminology, and this was acknowledged by being made the 2023 recipient of the Western Society of Criminology Richard Tewksbury award. She was also founding co-chair of the Division of Queer Criminology at the American Society of Criminology.

Rishweena Ahmed is Chief Inspector at the Maldives Police Service. Her recent submission of a PhD thesis on criminal desistance in the context of the Global South underscores her commitment to advancing knowledge in policing and criminology. Chief Inspector Ahmed is also an experienced police educator and has been instrumental in designing numerous inservice programmes and tertiary-level courses for serving police officers. Presently, serving as a police commander, she leverages her expertise to tackle contemporary challenges in law enforcement in the island nation of the Maldives.