Overview

First published in 1996. In keeping with the other volumes in the Current Issues in Criminal justice series, this anthology is a prime example of joining readability and scholarship. Editor Otwin Marenin has thoughtfully commissioned and compiled an excellent group of essays on the role of police in changing societies by a very knowledgeable group of scholars. Moreover, Marenin has added substantially to the collection through his own insightful contributions.

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Author:   Otwin Marenin
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.840kg
ISBN:  

9780815319955

ISBN 10:   0815319959
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   01 January 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface Policing Change, Changing Police: Some Thematic Questions; Changing Control of Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro and Sio Paulo, Brazil; International Tutelage and Domestic Political Will: Building a New Civilian Police Force in El Salvador; Policing Change in the Gulf States: The Effect of the Gulf Conflict; The Legitimations of Policing in Hong Kong: A Non-Democratic Perspective; Forza Polizia: Time to Change the Italian Policing System? Bad Apples or Rotten Barrel?: Policing in Northern Ireland; Post-Soviet Policing: An Historical Perspective; The Indigenisation of Policing in South Africa; Policing the European Union: The Politics of Transition; Reinventing Policing: Policing as Governance; Changing Police, Policing Change: Towards More Questions

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Otwin Marenin is a professor in the Political Science Department and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at Washington State University.

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