Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- What is policing? -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- A brief history of the police in England and Wales -- Perspectives on the development of the police -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- The consolidation of police powers -- PACE in practice -- Police power: the wider context -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles --

Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- Approaches to accountability -- Controlling the constable -- Ethics, human rights and policing -- Governing the British police -- Accountability and plural policing -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- Defining 'community policing' -- Practising community policing -- Challenges for community policing -- Conclusion: whither community policing? -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- The nature of police culture -- The roots of police culture -- The implications of police culture --

Broadening the horizon: culture and policing in a wider perspective -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- The impact of the Lawrence inquiry -- Two dimensions of policing diversity -- Broadening the diversity agenda: gender, sexuality, age, disability -- Why is diversity important? -- The complexities of diversity -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction: globalisation and transnational policing in context -- Global policing, international policing or transnational policing? --

Democracy, transnational policing and international development: rule of law and the nurturing of civil society -- Transnational policing in the European Union -- Global plural policing and securitisation -- Conclusion: policing beyond territory -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- Why investigate offences? -- Who investigates offences? -- The organisation of police criminal investigation -- Relation of police investigations to the wider CJS -- The conduct of police crime investigations -- The management of crime investigation -- Conclusion: the dynamics of police crime investigations -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites --

Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- Dimensions of pluralisation -- Private policing -- Explaining the growth of private security -- Private sector discipline in the public police -- Third-party and multi-agency policing -- Networks of policing -- Rebirth or new paradigm? -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- Technology in context -- CCTV, ANPR and traffic monitoring: benevolent gaze or big brother? -- Eyes in the sky: police drones -- Crime mapping, intelligence and the regulation of policing -- The impact of technology on policing and police work -- Conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading --

Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles -- Learning objectives -- Key terms -- Introduction -- Professionalisation -- 'Scientific policing' and technology -- Pluralisation -- Financial austerity -- Social transformation -- Conclusion: reconsidering the police mandate -- Chapter summary -- Self-check questions -- Study questions -- Annotated further reading -- Annotated listings of links to relevant websites -- Annotated links to journal articles.