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Print Price: $105.50

Format:
Paperback
248 pp.
170 mm x 245 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195561067

Publication date:
December 2008

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Policing in Context

An Introduction to Police Work in Australia

Roderic Broadhurst and Sara Davies

Policing in Context is a well structured introductory text that gives students the practical information they need to grasp the diverse roles, duties, powers and problems of policing in Australia. This book approaches policing in three key sections, creating a natural flow of information. The first section sets up the basic knowledge needed for understanding the history, context and structure of policing in Australia. The second section provides a description of the core skills, tasks and operations of police work. In the final section, chapters cover and reflect on contemporary and emerging issues.

1. Roderic Broadhurst and Sara E. Davies: Introduction
2. Dean Wilson: Histories of Policing
3. Jacqueline M. Drew and Lorraine Mazerolle: Eras of Policing
4. Geoff Dean and Colin Thorne: Organisation and Management of Police
5. Nigel Stobbs: Police Power and Duties
6. Sharon Hayes and Mark Lauchs: Oversight, Integrity and Ethics
7. Colin Thorne and Nicholoas Chantler: Process of Investigations
8. Nicholas Chantler and Colin Thorne: Intelligence Led Policing
9. Samantha Jeffries and Colin Dillon: Policing Indigenous Peoples
10. Adrian Cherney and Wing Hong Chui: Policing Ethnically and Culturally DIverse Communities
11. Sara E. Davies: Policing Transnational Crime
12. Alex J. Bellamy: The International Deployment Group

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Roderic Broadhurst is Professor at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University. Sara Davies is ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University.

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Special Features

Each chapter includes a short study guide, with study questions, relevant websites and a further reading guide to encourage students to take their learning beyond the text.
Case study inserts throughout the text, containing specific police cases, research or issues of interest. These highlight the key issues facing police and the community and facilitate discussion on the ways these issues can be addressed.
Maps the different statutory and common law origins and powers of the several Australian forces.