"A wonderful resource, user friendly and very well written." - Timothy J. Horohol, John Jay College A unique approach to studying police forces around the globe

This book is a systematic and comparative analysis of police systems in the Western world, looking at their structure and how they tackle contemporary social pr

"A wonderful resource, user friendly and very well written." - Timothy J. Horohol, John Jay College A unique approach to studying police forces around the globe

This book argues that policing should be studied in a truly comparative manner as a way of identifying more accurately the diverse features of police organisati

Public police forces are a regular phenomenon in most jurisdictions around the world, yet their highly divergent legal context draws surprisingly little attenti