TRANSFORMATIONS OF POLICING

Hardback. Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society Series. 'Police and People in London' was still the largest and most detailed study of a police force and its relations with the public that had ever been undertaken in Britain. At the time of this book's publication, the 23yrs years since its publication had seen a constantly-accelerating rate of change in the legal framework of policing, in the arrangements for democratic accountability of the police, in the technologies involved in crime and policing, in management structures and methods in the police service, in financial control systems imposed by central government and in methods of assessing police performance. Over the same period, crime control had moved from the bottom to the top of the political agenda, leading to increasing pressure on the police to be seen to be effective. This book returns to the central issues discussed in 1983 and considers whether the main conclusions need to be revised in the light of what had happened since. It also reviews areas of debate and research that had emerged more recently and highlights areas of turbulence that were creating fundamentally different patterns from before and raising genuinely new questions. With List of Figures, List of Tables, Notes on Contributors, List of Acronyms and Abbreviations + Index. 321pp. 8vo. h/back. F. dw. not required.