Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies

Confirming and confronting of old truths while simultaneously offering new approaches to the policing praxis, this book is thought provoking, intellectually challenging, and entirely relevant. For origins to future trajectories, each aspect of policing is tackled in a multifaceted and multilayered manner reflecting at its core a careful weighing up and ethical reckoning of the police narrative. Professor Rob White, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Criminology, University of Tasmania, Australia The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies is a well-constructed compilation of global scholarship that challenges traditional beliefs about policing. The book also provides measured critiques of traditional policing, inequality, and injustice in policing, while offering critical reflections and potential new directions in policing. Dr Wendell Wallace, Coordinator, Mediation Studies Unit, University of West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago Honouring policing's aspirationsand more importantly protecting and elevating a society's most vulnerable membersrequires that we question the status quo with a sharp critical lens. That is what this volume does so well: taking a broad, global scope, it provides fresh and rigorous thinking about some of the most vexing challenges of modern policing. Dr Brandon del Pozo, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, USA

Nicole L Asquith is the Professor of Policing at the University of Tasmania, and Convenor of the Australian Hate Crime Network. Her research primarily focusses on victimisation and justice, including landmark studies into hate crime, sexual violence, honour-based violence, and family and domestic violence. She is a critical policing scholar, who has worked with and for policing organisations in Australia and the UK for over 20 years, and is the co-author of Policing Practices and Vulnerable People (2021) and Crime & Criminology (2023), and co-editor of Policing Encounters with Vulnerability (2017) and Policing Vulnerability (2012). Jess Rodgers is a researcher for the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. They have undertaken research work in a wide range of topics including policing domestic violence, small town policing, ableism in academia, and transgender people in prisons. Recently, they have published as leading authors in Police Practice and Research, International Journal of Police Science and Management, International Journal of Rural Criminology and Higher Education Research and Development. They are passionate about closing the research to practice gap and working closely with government and organisations to institute robust evidence-based policy and practice. James Clover is a retired police officer from the Edmonton Police Service, and former instructor at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was awarded the 2018 International Police Officer of the Year, by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, for his practitioner work in the field of law enforcement and public health. In 2021, James was named a Police Fellow for the Global Law Enforcement and Public Safety Association. Gary Cordner is Academic Director in the Education and Training Section of the Baltimore Police Department (USA). He is Professor Emeritus at both Kutztown University of Pennsylvania and Eastern Kentucky University, where he served as Dean of the College of Justice & Safety. He was founding editor of Police Quarterly and is past editor of the American Journal of Police. Earlier in his career he was a police officer and police chief in Maryland and obtained his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Angela Dwyer is an Associate Professor in Policing at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. Her research on LGBTIQ-police relationships contributed to founding the discipline area of queer criminology, and this was acknowledged by being made the 2023 recipient of the Western Society of Criminology Richard Tewksbury award. She was also founding co-chair of the Division of Queer Criminology at the American Society of Criminology. Rishweena Ahmed is a Chief Inspector at the Maldives Police Service. Her recent submission of a PhD thesis on criminal desistance in the context of the global south, underscores her commitment to advancing knowledge in policing and criminology. Chief Inspector Ahmed is also an experienced police educator and has been instrumental in designing numerous in-service programs and tertiary level courses for serving police officers. Presently, serving as a police commander, she leverages her expertise to tackle contemporary challenges in law enforcement in the island nation of the Maldives.

List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsForewordAcknowledgments Section 1: Conceptual Frameworks 1.1. Who ya gonna call? Peelian ghosts, contemporary contradictions, and conceptualising critical policing studies Nicole L. Asquith, Jess Rodgers, Gary Cordner, James Clover, Angela Dwyer and Rishweena Ahmed 1.2. Origin stories and the possibilities of policing Jonah Miller 1.3. Policing and the myth of public safety Amanda Porter Section 2: Reform the Police 2.1. Reforming policing Gary Cordner and Rishweena Ahmed 2.2. Reformism, abolitionism and the structural context of policework Roger Grimshaw, Tony Jefferson 2.3. Reform and the policing of gender violence: specialist stations in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina Jess Rodgers, Kerry Carrington, Mara Victoria Puyol, Mximo Sozzo, and Vanessa Ryan 2.4. Decoding of restorative justice practices: Evidence from Indian police stations Michael L. Valan 2.5. Desistance-led policing in the Maldives: A new way of policing persistent offenders Rishweena Ahmed 2.6. Policing indigenous communities in Canada John Kiedrowski, Nick Jones, and John Domm 2.7. Rethinking community policing in Fiji Anand Chand 2.8. Light touch police reform: The Tonga Police Development Program Tyler Cawthray 2.9. Citizens' trust and legitimacy in the police in Africa Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh 2.10. Professionalising a profession: The PEQF and policing in England and Wales Jennifer Hough and David Marshall 2.11. National levers for reform of decentralised policing systems James Harris and Gary Cordner Section 3: Redistribute Public Safety 3.1. Redistributing resources, rank, and relationships to reduce harm in public safety responses Angela Dwyer and James Clover 3.2. Propinquity and public safety Nicole Asquith and Jess Rodgers 3.3. Crowdsourcing in missing person investigations: Opportunities for police to foster public trust Scott Duncan 3.4. When we need you, we will call you: Policing through social contract in a localised health setting Monique Marks and Dhiya Pillay Matai 3.5. The policing of dis/ability Cameron Russell and Clare Farmer 3.6. Arts and policing: imagining new approaches to police-community relationships? Rachel Lewis and Jackie Hodgson 3.7. Policing African migrants in Australia Samuel Sakama and Joseph Chitambo 3.8. Lost in translation: Policing and alternatives to mental health crisis Sabrina C. Taylor and Heather Ross 3.9. Missing communities: A novel approach to police-community partnership Maureen Taylor and Dave Grimstead 3.10. Envisaging the future of community safety and wellbeing: Practical examples of policing and public health collaborations Carla Chan Unger, Nick Crofts, and Auke van Dijk 3.11. Civic heroes or untrained allies? A critical examination of bystander intervention in co-production policing Nick Evans 3.12. Beyond communities and securitarianism: Plural security in Umbria Stefano Anastasia, Antonello Azzar , and Vincenzo Scalia Section 4: Replace the Police 4.1. Building up, not breaking down: Replacing systems of exclusion and harm Jess Rodgers and Nicole Asquith 4.2. Police reformism and the challenges of decolonialism and abolitionism Chris Cunneen 4.3. The failed Indigenisation experiment: a critical analysis of the state-of-exception policing in Aotearoa New Zealand Adele Norris, Antje Deckert, and Juan Tauri 4.4. Policing of urban margins, police accountability and contested Human Rights: An enquiry into a Chilean neighbourhood Gonzalo Garca-Campo Almendros and Pascual Corts, 4.5. An Elders-led response to the criminalisation of Aboriginal Young People in a Remote Community Peta MacGillivray, Virginia Robinson and Ruth McCausland 4.6. The Rojava revolution and alternative models of policing Hawzhin Azeez 4.7. Freedom House: Following the lodestar of community towards an abolitionist horizon Tiffany Yang 4.8. Sex workers, work! AntiCarceral practices as world building Alisson