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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Policing: Politics Culture and Control by Edited by Tim Newburn Edited by Professor Jill Peay
Bringing together a range of leading social scientists and criminologists this volume explores a number of key themes raised by the work of Robert Reiner. Arguably the leading policing scholar of his generation Reiners work over some 40 years has ranged broadly in this field taking in the study of police culture organisation elites and relationships with the media. Always carefully situated within an analysis of the changing socio-political circumstances of policing and crime control Robert Reiners scholarship has been path-breaking in its impact.The thirteen original essays in this volume are testament to Reiners influence. Although reflecting the primarily British bent within his work the essays also draw on contributors from Australia Europe South Africa and the United States to explore some of the leading debates of the moment. These include but are not limited to the impact of neoliberalism on crime control and the challenges for modern social democracy; police culture equality and political economy; new media and the future of policing; youth policing and democracy and the challenges and possibilities posed by globalisation in the fields of policing and security.