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Patterns of Policing
A Comparative International Analysis
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David Bayley
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
1990
About this book
"Patterns of Policing" is the first comparison of the development and operation of police in countries throughout the world, concentrating on Asia, Europe, and North America. Bayley examines the variability in police work, suggests reasons for this variation, and makes preditions about the future role of police.
He considers how contemporary police institutions have developed. Police forces worldwide tend to be public rather than private, to concentrate on crime fighting rather than services, and to be professionally trained and recruited. There is, however, great variation in the structure of police forces, which are generally either centralized or, as in the United States, decentralized.
The behavior of the police toward their constituents also varies by nation. As urbanization and industrialization increase, the public finds itself in greater contact with police and may begin to rely on them more for protection. There are also marked differences cross-nationally in the way police relate to political and community life.
Author / Editor information
David H. Bayley is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at the State University of New York-Albany. He is the author of The Police and Political Development in India and Forces of Order: Police Behavior in Japan and the United States.
Reviews
An eye-opening and somewhat heroic construction designed to shift our perspective on the nature and causes of police work... important and long overdue... By design, it is an empirical and wide-ranging work that pays attention to the available numbers and public claims of police officials. — Contemporary Sociology
Bayley has posed key questions on police functioning... and responded by using a model-building approach based on theoretical propositions and subjected to an international data base. — Choice
An eye-opening and somewhat heroic construction designed to shift our perspective on the nature and causes of police work... important and long overdue... By design, it is an empirical and wide-ranging work that pays attention to the available numbers and public claims of police officials. — Contemporary Sociology
Bayley has posed key questions on police functioning... and responded by using a model-building approach based on theoretical propositions and subjected to an international data base. — Choice
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Keywords for this book
Crime; Law & Deviance Series; Crime; Law & Deviance; Patterns of Policing; A Comparative International Analysis; David H. Bayley; first comparison of the development and operation of police in countries throughout the world; police; operation of police; Asia; Europe; and North America police; variability in police work; reasons for variation in police work; predictions about the future role of police; how contemporary police institutions have developed; contemporary police stations; behavior of the police toward their constituents; marked differences cross-nationally in the way police relate to political and community life; policial life; community life; cross-national differences for police
