Overview
Advances empirically informed understanding and critical debate of the need and effect of guns
Values the importance of alternative approaches and viewpoints to the gun debate
Explores the nexus between policing and firearms with a genuinely international focus
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Policing and firearms: it is a crucial relationship. Should police be routinely armed? If so, what restrictions should be imposed on the use of firearms? Where police are not routinely armed, there is still a need for specialist armed police: how do these units operate, and are they effective?
This ground-breaking edited book explores the nexus between policing and firearms with a genuinely international focus. Contributors from Ireland, Germany, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, the United States, Venezuela, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada explore the issues from a range of perspectives, including human rights, militarization, police legitimacy, and the risks police firearms pose to the community and to police themselves.
This thought-provoking collection is an indispensable resource for law enforcement policymakers and students of policing and criminal justice.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Policing, Firearms and Human Rights
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Policing, Firearms and Militarization
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Policing, Firearms and Risk
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Policing, Firearms and Legitimacy
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Clare Farmer is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University, Australia. She is a member of the Adult Parole Board in Victoria, Australia, and previously served as a Magistrate in England. Clare’s research expertise focuses on procedural justice across criminal and civil processes, and she publishes widely in this field. Her teaching extends across undergraduate and postgraduate domains, specializing in criminal justice, policy development, research methodologies, and research ethics, and she is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Dr. Richard Evans is a criminologist, researcher, teacher, and writer. He is the author of six books and many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, on topics as diverse as crime history, policing, disaster studies, hazing in the military, and surveillance. His books include The Pyjama Girl Mystery (Scribe, 2004) and Disasters That Changed Australia (Victory, 2009). He is co-author, with Dr. Clare Farmer, of Do Police Need Guns? Policing and Firearms: Past, Present, and Future (Springer, 2020). His areas of expertise include crime, policing, mental health, drug policy, Australian history, politics, public policy, and religion. He has commented on crime, policing, and history for both print and broadcast media. A former journalist, Richard is also a visual artist and songwriter and has a strong interest in music and culture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Policing & Firearms
Book Subtitle: New Perspectives and Insights
Editors: Clare Farmer, Richard Evans
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13013-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13012-0Published: 01 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13015-1Published: 02 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13013-7Published: 31 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 407
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Crime Control and Security, Crime and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Public Health