Handbook

Focuses on policing as a set of social and legal practices and institutions, including beyond the public police. The approach is comparative and inter-disciplinary, drawing on a wide range of historical, socio-legal and criminological research. Policing is placed in its social and historical contexts by assessing conflicting interpretations of its history and of police public relations and the particular character policing in Australia. Topics include: police culture, the policing of social divisions, police corruption and deviance, the policing of public order, the policing of young people, drug policing, fictional representations of policing, developments in community, private, hybrid and international policing, and the limits and possibilities of police reform in the wake of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service.

Main Topics

• histories of policing
• police culture
• the policing of social divisions
• police corruption and deviance
• the policing of public order
• the policing of young people
• drug policing
• fictional representations of policing
• developments in community
• private, hybrid and international policing
• the limits and possibilities of police reform in the wake of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service