ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL POLICING STUDIES (HB 2025)

Critical analyses of policing have accompanied accounts of the police since the early days of modern police organisations. More so than ever, police and policing are subject to close and critical scrutiny from governments and the public. It is timely, therefore, to consider what is critical about police and policing.

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies brings together scholars and practitioners to critically explore the full continuum of safety governance from police reforms to the redistribution of policing resources to the replacement of state police. In offering the three Rs of policing―reform, redistribute, replace―we provide a conceptualisation of critical policing studies that acknowledges a continuum of policing that mirrors the different trajectories, priorities, and possibilities that exist across different cultural and historical contexts. This collection is composed of 65 scholars and practitioners across 39 chapters, edited by a team of police pracademics and policing scholars, to showcase accounts of policing from outside the Anglo-European metropole, privileging works from First Nations people and from the Global South, and presenting contextualised solutions to the problems facing police and communities.

This Handbook identifies the key issues facing the police and safety governance across the globe and offers insights into the implications for policing theory and practice, proposing solutions to some of the most intransigent problems facing contemporary societies. Individually, and as a collection, this Handbook will be an essential read for scholars, practitioners, and activists alike.

Nicole L. Asquith is 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 coeditor of Policing Encounters with Vulnerability (2017) and Policing Vulnerability (2012).

Jess Rodgers is a research associate at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania. 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 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 PhD from Michigan State University.

Angela Dwyer is 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 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 inservice programmes 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.