Overview

This book provides a comprehensive overview of police governance in England and Wales. This volume (II) covers reform and development of tripartite governance from 1979-2025. Volume I starts from the Anglo Saxon period. These volumes analyse the key mechanisms and procedures that have sought to provide for the control and accountability of police organisations to external bodies and the means through which the conduct and work performed by police personnel is regulated internally. They discuss and evaluate the key debates and developments that have underpinned changes to police governance and the social, economic and political context within which these have emerged. They bring together a wide variety of material that relates to historical and contemporary aspects of policing. They draw upon primary (as well as secondary) source material including the use of historical documents for the early chapters. They speak to students taking courses in criminology and criminal justice studies and also those specialising in policing and to practitioners.

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Author:   Peter Joyce ,  Wendy Laverick
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032046598

ISBN 10:   3032046599
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   06 January 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction - The ‘Old’ Policing System.- Chapter 2: Crime, disorder and police reform in the eighteenth century.- Chapter 3: Police reform in the Metropolis 1798-1839.- Chapter 4: The development of professional policing outside of the Metropolis 1835-1856.- Chapter 5: Police Governance 1856 – 1964.- Chapter 6: The 1964 Police Act and Police Governance.- Chapter 7: New Public Management and police governance.- Chapter 8: Labour’s reforms to police governance 1997-2010.- Chapter 9: Reforms to police governance since 2010.- Chapter 10: The policing of extremism, terrorism and organised transnational crime.- Chapter 11: The governance of discretion.- Chapter 12: Conclusion future directions for police governance.

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Peter Joyce is Visiting Professor at Wrexham University, UK.    Wendy Laverick is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Policing at The University of Hull, UK. 

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