1st Edition

Global Issues in Contemporary Policing

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book addresses six areas of policing: performance management, professional and academic partnerships, preventing and fighting crime and terrorism, immigrant and multicultural populations, policing the police, and cyber-security. The book contains the most current and ground-breaking research across the world of policing with contributors from over 20 countries. It is also a suitable reference or textbook in a special topics course. It consists of edited versions of the best papers presented at the IPES annual meeting in Budapest.

    Section I: LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY

    1 Policing: Continuity and Change
    PETER C. KRATCOSKI

    2 Police Executive Leadership and Police Legitimacy
    VIPUL KUMAR

    3 On the Acceptability of Closer Public–Private Policing Partnerships: Views from the Public Side
    STEPHEN B. PERROTT AND KRYSTINA TRITES

    4 Reactive and Proactive Measures of Police Corruption Control: Comparative Study in Three Countries
    BRANISLAV SIMONOVIC, MAXIMILIAN EDELBACHER, AND BAKHIT NURGALIYEV

    Section II: ANALYSIS

    5 Using Complaints against the Police to Improve Community–Police Relations
    JANE GOODMAN-DELAHUNTY, MIRA TAITZ, CHANTAL SOWEMIMO-COKER, AND IDA NGUYEN

    6 Cybercrime, Cyberattacks, and Problems of Implementing Organizational Cybersecurity
    ANTHONY MINNAAR

    7 Intelligence Analysis: A Key Tool for Modern Police Management—The Romanian Perspective
    SORINA-MARIA COFAN AND AUREL-MIHAIL BĂLOI

    Section III: SATISFACTION AND COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

    8 Paradigm Shift in Hong Kong Public Order Policing
    WING KWONG YUNG AND SANDY CHAU

    9 Citizen Satisfaction with Police: The Effects of Income Level and Prior Victimization Experiences on Citizen Perceptions of Police
    ROBERT D. HANSER, CREEL S. GALLAGHER, AND ATTAPOL KUANLIANG

    10 Transformations in Policing—Two Decades of Experience in Community Policing in Slovenia
    BRANKO LOBNIKAR, GORAZD MEŠKO, AND MAJA MODIC

    11 Policing by Consent: Exploring the Possibilities of Functional Linkage between Local Police Station and Panchayat
    SONY KUNJAPPAN

    The International Police Executive Symposium

    Index

    Biography

    John A. Eterno received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany. He is a Professor, Associate Dean, and Director of Graduate Studies in Criminal Justice at Molloy College and a retired Captain from the New York Police Department. Molloy College has recognized his accomplishments with specific awards in various areas including research/publication, teaching and service. He has penned numerous books, book chapters, articles, and editorials on various topics in policing. Some examples of his most recent publications: an op-ed in the New York Times entitled "Policing by the Numbers"; several peer-reviewed articles in Justice Quarterly and the books, The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation (with Eli B. Silverman), The New York City Police Department: The Impact of Its Policies and Practices, and The Detective’s Handbook (with Cliff Roberson).

    Arvind Verma
    is a former officer of the Indian Police Service and currently Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of a large number of publications. His research interests are in policing of India and computational criminology.

    Aiedeo Mintie Das works as a digital media/content marketing specialist. As Director of Public Relations of the International Police Executive Symposium, she organizes international criminal justice symposia, coordinating with Ministries of Interior/Justice to bring together well-known academics and top police leaders in global venues. Currently, she is pursuing her graduate studies in Helsinki, Finland.

    Dilip K. Das is the President, International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), and was founding Editor-in-Chief of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. After 14 years in the Indian Police Service as a Police Executive, including Chief of Police, he moved to the USA in 1979 where he achieved a second Master’s Degree (in Criminal Justice) as well as a doctorate in the same discipline. Das has authored, edited, and co-edited more than 40 books, and numerous articles. He is the Series Editor for Advances in Police Theory and Practice and International Police Executive Symposium Co-Publications. He has traveled extensively throughout the world in comparative police research, as a visiting professor in various universities, including organizing annual conferences of the IPES, and as a Human Rights Consultant to the United Nations. Das has received several faculty excellence awards and was a Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.