The Abstract Police
Critical reflections on contemporary change in police organisations
These changes are captured through the concept of the ‘abstract police’ and in this international collection of essays, leading policing scholars use this concept to make sense of contemporary changes to police organisations.
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ISBN/EAN | 9789051892086 |
Auteur | Jan Terpstra |
Uitgever | Boom uitgevers Den Haag |
Taal | Engels |
Uitvoering | EA |
Pagina's | 250 |
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Jan Terpstra is professor emeritus at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and fellow at the Free University of Brussels (Research Group Crime & Society), Belgium. His main topics of research are the police (in practice and in policy), plural policing, criminal justice, and issues of public and private security. Renze Salet is assistant professor criminology at the department of Criminal Law & Criminology of the Radboud University, Nijmegen (the Netherlands). She conducts research on the empirical functioning of the police and other agencies in the domain of public safety. Nicholas R. Fyfe is Professor and Vice Principal for Research at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He was the founding Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research and his recent works has focused on issues of police reform, the use of research evidence to inform police practice, and the policing of missing persons.