This book is an interdisciplinary attempt to understand the contemporaneous human condition of asylum seekers through analysis of their entrapment and the resultant new forms of resistance that have emerged to combat it. Based on qualitative research data, the chapters support the claim that asylum seekers are entrapped in social, legal and economic precariousness amidst the complex relationshi…
This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation where policewomen constitute 15% of the total HKP establishment. What accounts for these dev…
This book offers a comparison of the differences between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both. Beginning with the origins of the concept of privacy, before addressing more current thinking, the authors examine the notion of privacy and policing, using both direct (e.g. 'stop and search' methods) and technological intervent…
Introduction -- Section I:Documenting Police Misconduct,- 1.Introduction -- 2.What is Police Misconduct -- 3.Police Misconduct in Brooklyn, New York.- Section II:Understanding Police Misconduct -- 4.What the data shows -- 5.Understanding the findings.- Section: III.Preventing Police Misconduct -- 6.Regulatory, Legislative and Judicial Measures -- 7.Recruitment, Training, Accountability and Tr…
This book reinvigorates the debate about the origins and development of police culture within our changing social, economic and political landscape. An in-depth analysis and appreciation of the literature surrounding police socialisation, identity and culture is combined with a comprehensive four-year longitudinal study of new recruits to a police force in England. The result offers new insight…
This exciting and timely collection showcases recent work on Cybercrime by members of Uclan Cybercrime Research Unit [UCRU], directed by Dr Tim Owen at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. This book offers up-to-date perspectives on Cybercrime based upon a Realist social ontology, alongside suggestions for how research into Cybercrime might move beyond what can be seen as the main theoreti…
Chapter 1. Vulnerability as a Contemporary Challenge for Policing -- SECTION ONE: CONCEPUTALISING POLICING ENCOUNTERS WITH VULNERABILITY -- Chapter 2. Problematising and Reconceptualising ‘Vulnerability’ in the Context of Disablist Violence -- Chapter 3. Embodying Youthful Vulnerabilities and Policing Public Spaces -- Chapter 4. Moral Vulnerability and Police Defensiveness in Accountability…
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human rights oriented internal agendas. This book, however, paints a much more nuanced picture of the welfa…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Unique Challenges of Reentry for Convicted Sex Offenders -- Chapter 3. A Family Systems Perspective in Prisoner Reentry -- Chapter 4. Root and Rebound -- Chapter 5. What Works in Reentry and How to Improve Outcomes -- Chapter 6. Can Released Prisoners “Make it”? -- Chapter 7. Employment Isn't Enough -- Epilogue.This book addresses the core issues in pri…
1. Impact and the Reflexive Imperative in Criminal Justice Policy, Practice and Research; Sarah Armstrong, Jarrett Blaustein, Alistair Henry -- 2. Interpreting Influence; Harry Annison -- 3. When the Stars Align; Elaine Fishwick -- 4. Towards Hope, Solidarity and Re-Humanisation; Ruari-Santiago McBride -- 5. Policy as a Crime Scene; Sarah Armstrong, Anita Lam -- 6. Reflexivity in Statistics as …