Handbook of Policing 2e

This new edition of the "Handbook of Policing" updates and expands the highly successful first edition, and now includes a completely new chapter on policing and forensics. It provides a comprehensive but highly readable overview of policing in the UK, and is an essential reference point combining the expertise of leading academic experts on policing and policing practitioners themselves. "'A major contribution to the study of policing in the UK... authoritative, interesting and extremely wideranging' Sir Ian Blair (Commissioner, Metropolitan Police) 'the most comprehensive treatment ever published on the issues facing British police in the 21st century. Indispensable reading for students, leaders, critics and supporters of the police'. Professor Lawrence W Sherman, President, International Society of Criminology"