The New Policing provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical issues confronting policing today. It incorporates an overview of traditional approaches to the study of the police with a discussion of current perspectives. The book goes on to examine key themes, including:

- the core purpose of contemporary policework;

- the reconfiguration of police culture;

- organisational issues and dilemmas currently confronting the police;

- the managerial reforms and professional; innovations that have been implemented in recent years;

- the future of policing, security and crime control.

In offering this discussion of the nature and role of the police, The New Policing illustrates the need to re-examine and re-think the theoretical perspectives that have constituted policing studies. Examining evidence from the United Kingdom, the United States and other western societies, the book promotes and enables an understanding of the cultural and symbolic significance of policing in society.

This ground-breaking text has been constructed to ensure that it touches on all the key issues that any course on police and policing will cover. It is an essential purchase for all students of policing and criminal justice, and academics and professionals working in this field.

PART ONE: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE POLICE
Cultural construction of the English Police
The iconic PC:
George Dixon
The Blue Lamp
The Murder of PC George Dixon
PART TWO: THE SOCIOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE POLICE
Michael Banton and The Policeman in the Community
Policing British Pre-Modernity
Policing American Modernity
Policing British Modernity
PART THREE: POLICE STUDIES
Traditional Perspectives
Ethnographic Perspectives
Marxist Perspectives
Administrative Perspectives
Left realist Perspectives
PART FOUR:POLICE STUDIES
New Perspectives
Security Governance
The future configuration of Policing
Nodalization
Residualization
Managerialization
Re-sovereignization
Global Securitzation
PART FIVE: POLICING CRIME AND DISORDER
Insecurities of the Metropolis
The Bright Blue Lamp
The Dimming Blue Lamp
Relighting the Blue Lamp?
Cultural Disintegration: the broken ¿spectacle¿ of policing
PART SIX:POLICE CULTURE
Policing the multi-cultural society
Beyond Scarman
Macpherson and ¿Institutional Racism¿
Beyond Macpherson
The Secret Policeman
Explaining Racist Culture
De-contaminating Racist Culture
PART SEVEN: POLICE GOVERNANCE
Officer Level Accountability
Force Level Accountability
Democratic Accountability
¿New Localism¿
PART EIGHT: POLICING NEW TERRORISM
The darkening skies over the metropolis
The rules have changed
Policing the post 7/7 Terrorist Threat
Shoot-to-Kill-to-Protect
What kind of police force do we want? 2012 Vision

Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.