Overview
- Provides the reader with multi-faceted analyses of the primary factors involving police-community relations and law enforcement strategic deployment, particularly those related to under-represented and minority groups, from diverse global contributors, including non-Western perspectives
- Examines the contemporary and controversial issue of strained police-community relations through the perspectives of both highly respected academic researchers and accomplished law enforcement practitioners
- Delineates tried-and-tested initiatives and practical recommendations to effectively enhance police-community relations
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This insightful book examines the allegations against the professionalism, transparency, and integrity of law enforcement toward minority groups, from a global perspective. It addresses the challenges inherent in maintaining strong ties with members of the community, and draws attention to obstacles in ensuring public confidence and trust in rule of law institutions. Most importantly, the book provides insight into mechanisms and proposals for policy reform that would permit enhanced police-community partnership, collaboration and mutual respect.
Acknowledging the consistency of this concern despite geographic location, ethnic diversity, and religious tolerance, this book considers controversial factors that have caused many groups and individuals to question their relationship with law enforcement. The book examines the context of police-community relations with contributed research from Nigeria, South Africa, Kosovo, Turkey, New Zealand, Mexico, Scandinavia and other North American and European viewpoints. It evaluates the roles that critical factors such as ethnicity, political instability, conflict, colonization, mental health, police practice, religion, critical criminology, socialism, and many other important aspects and concepts have played on perceptions of policing and rule of law.A valuable resource for law enforcement practitioners and researchers, policy makers, and students of criminal justice, Policing and Minority Communities: Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives confronts crucial challenges and controversies in policing today with quantitative and qualitative research and practical policy recommendations.
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Keywords
- policing
- police
- racial profiling
- racism
- police use of force
- police shootings
- police brutality
- police corruption
- police misconduct
- ethnic profiling
- community policing
- police legitimacy
- black lives matter
- minority communities
- policing in kosovo
- policing in turkey
- policing in nigeria
- policing in new zealand
- policing in Canada
- policing in South Africa
- ethnicity, class, gender and crime
Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Policing and Minority Communities
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Sensitive and Controversial Issues
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North American Perspectives
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International Perspectives
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Garth den Heyer is a Professor at Walden University and Arizona State University, and is a Senior Research Fellow with the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C. he was previously a Chief Inspector with the New Zealand Police.
Perry Stanislas is a Professor at De Montfort University and is retired from the British Secret Service.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Policing and Minority Communities
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Issues and Global Perspectives
Editors: James F. Albrecht, Garth den Heyer, Perry Stanislas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19182-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19181-8Published: 16 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19184-9Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19182-5Published: 31 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 334
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour