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Advances in Police Theory and Practice


About the Series

Presenting volumes that focus on the nexus between research and practice, the Advances in Police Theory and Practice series is geared toward those practitioners and academics seeking to implement the latest innovations in policing from across the world. This series draws from an international community of experts who examine who the police are, what they do, and how they maintain order, administer laws, and serve their communities.

The series editor encourages the contribution of works coauthored by police practitioners and researchers. Proposals for contributions to the series may be submitted to the series editor Dilip Das at [email protected].

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Challenges of Contemporary Policing Higher Education, Technology, and Officers’ Well-Being

Challenges of Contemporary Policing: Higher Education, Technology, and Officers’ Well-Being

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Vicente Riccio, Di Jia, Dilip K. Das
August 01, 2024

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 ...

Gender Inclusive Policing Challenges and Achievements

Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Prenzler
June 23, 2023

Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements is an edited collection focused on current challenges, innovations and positive achievements in gender integration in policing in different subject domains and locations. Comprised of essays by expert contributors from across the globe, the ...

International Responses to Gendered-Based Domestic Violence Gender-Specific and Socio-Cultural Approaches

International Responses to Gendered-Based Domestic Violence: Gender-Specific and Socio-Cultural Approaches

1st Edition

Edited By Dongling Zhang, Diana Scharff Peterson
March 23, 2023

This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels. With studies being conducted in 20 different countries and 4 distinct ...

Exploring Contemporary Police Challenges A Global Perspective

Exploring Contemporary Police Challenges: A Global Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Sanja Kutnjak Ivković, Jon Maskály, Christopher M. Donner, Irena Cajner Mraović, Dilip K. Das
December 30, 2022

Policing in the 21st century is becoming increasingly complicated as economic, political, social, and legal circumstances continue to compel police organizations to evolve. To illustrate the complexity of policing in the 21st century and cover themes common to police organizations around the world,...

Translational Criminology in Policing

Translational Criminology in Policing

1st Edition

Edited By The George Mason Police Research Group with David Weisburd
May 19, 2022

With contributions from international policing experts, this book is the first of its kind to bring together a broad range of scholarship on translational criminology and policing. Translational criminology aims to understand the obstacles and facilitators to implementing research by decisionmakers...

Police Behavior, Hiring, and Crime Fighting An International View

Police Behavior, Hiring, and Crime Fighting: An International View

1st Edition

Edited By John A. Eterno, Ben Stickle, Diana Scharff Peterson, Dilip K. Das
September 28, 2021

This edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating specific crimes. Individual chapters strike at critical issues for police today, such as maintaining the well-being of ...

Women in Policing around the World Doing Gender and Policing in a Gendered Organization

Women in Policing around the World: Doing Gender and Policing in a Gendered Organization

1st Edition

By Venessa Garcia
March 25, 2021

Women in Policing around the World is a historical, legal, political, and social examination of women in policing. The book opens with a comparison of cultural definitions of gender and how this affects women’s work in general and policing specifically. The book then takes the reader through women ...

Policing in France

Policing in France

1st Edition

Edited By Jacques de Maillard, Wesley Skogan
August 03, 2020

The eminent contributors to a new collection, Policing in France, provide an updated and realistic picture of how the French police system really works in the 21st century. In most international comparisons, France typifies the "Napoleonic" model for policing, one featuring administrative and ...

Policing and the Mentally Ill International Perspectives

Policing and the Mentally Ill: International Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Duncan Chappell
February 17, 2020

In countries with democratic traditions, police interactions with the mentally ill are usually guided by legislative mandates giving police discretion and possibly resulting in referrals for assistance and treatment. But all too frequently, the outcome of these interactions is far less therapeutic ...

Civilian Oversight of Police Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement

Civilian Oversight of Police: Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Prenzler, Garth den Heyer
December 10, 2019

Exploring the complex and controversial topic of civilian oversight of police, this book analyzes the issues and debates entailed by civilian oversight by using worldwide perspectives, in-depth case studies, and a wealth of survey data. Integrating and summarizing decades of research from many ...

Cold Cases Evaluation Models with Follow-up Strategies for Investigators, Second Edition

Cold Cases: Evaluation Models with Follow-up Strategies for Investigators, Second Edition

2nd Edition

By James M. Adcock, Sarah L. Stein
December 10, 2019

Because the investigation of cold cases is usually an arduous and time-consuming task, most law enforcement agencies in the United States are not able to dedicate the resources necessary to support the cold case investigation process. However, when those cases are fully pursued and prosecuted, they...

Collaborative Policing Police, Academics, Professionals, and Communities Working Together for Education, Training, and Program Implementation

Collaborative Policing: Police, Academics, Professionals, and Communities Working Together for Education, Training, and Program Implementation

1st Edition

Edited By Peter C. Kratcoski, Maximilian Edelbacher
December 10, 2019

"The chapters in this book reveal that police education, training, and practices are now closely tied to collaboration between police, academics, professional practitioners, and community agencies, and such collaboration is described and evaluated."—Dilip K. Das, PhD, Founding President, ...

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