Introduction to Professional Policing (eBook, PDF)

Examining the Evidence Base
Redaktion: Pepper, Ian; McGrath, Ruth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This 2nd edition has been reviewed and significantly updated in line with the dynamic and ongoing demands faced by operational policing and therefore the associated knowledge requirements for policing education and training. It includes new chapters on community and neighbourhood policing, problem solving and volunteers in policing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040368077
• Artikelnr.: 74048343

Autorenporträt

Ian Pepper is a professor in policing at the International Centre for Policing and Security, University of South Wales, and an advisor on higher education within policing nationally. Ian is a former principal lecturer in policing, senior lecturer in crime scene and forensic science, police trainer, crime scene investigator (CSI) and fingerprint officer. He has been a team leader at the National Training Centre for Scientific Support to Crime Investigation and has designed and delivered education and training to crime scene investigators and police officers worldwide. Ian has undertaken additional academic roles including chair of the QAA/College of Policing subject benchmark statement for policing, visiting professor in professional practice at the University of Sunderland and invited visiting scholar at the University of Central Florida, USA. With research interests focused on policing higher education, police leadership and volunteering in policing, Ian has authored and edited a range of journal articles and policing publications. Ruth McGrath teaches on the BSc Crime and Investigation course at Teesside University, and more recently became course leader of the BSc Professional Policing. Before this Ruth served with Cleveland Police where she experienced a range of operational roles, including uniformed policing, investigation, roads policing and custody officer. As a detective she was engaged in major crime investigations and completed a six-month secondment to a national unit based at New Scotland Yard. During her service she was also a police trainer and an A1 NVQ Assessor. Ruth has taught and managed numerous policing programmes at Teesside University including the Police Foundation Degree. With a special interest in policing higher education, Ruth has authored several journal articles and contributed to a published volume.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Ian Pepper and Ruth McGrath
1. Ethics, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Eifion Swinnerton-Gismondi
2. Maintaining Professional Standards and Reflective Practice
Dominic A. Wood
3. Criminology and Criminal Justice
Anne Lodge
4. The Role of the Police as a Public Authority
Angela King and Annabelle James
5. Evidence-Based Policing
Helen Selby-Fell and Ian Pepper
6. Communication Skills, Decision-making and Managing Conflict
Ruth McGrath, Ian Pepper, Mark Thornton
7. Problem Oriented Policing/Problem Solving
Jane Baxendale
8. Community and neighbourhood policing - the shifting sands
Mollie Rennoldson
9. Policing Vulnerability: Attrition, rape and domestic abuse
Emma Williams, Jennifer Norman, Katy Barrow-Grint
10. Counter-Terrorism: The Front line
Peter Williams
11. Digital Policing
Benjamin Findlay, Shawn Robertson and Harry Stewart
12. Volunteers in Policing
Colin Rogers
13. An Introduction to Coaching and Mentoring
David Taylor
14. Leadership
Ian Pepper, Rick Ruddell , Ross Wolf and Christopher D. O'Connor