Routledge International Handbook of Critical Policing Studies

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.

SECTION I - Conceptual Frameworks
1. ‘Who ya gonna call?’ Peelian ghosts, contemporary contradictions, and conceptualising critical policing studies
2. Origin stories and the possibilities of policing
3. Policing and the myth of public safety

SECTION II - Reform the Police
4. Reforming policing
5. Reformism, abolitionism, and the structural context of policework
6. Reform and the policing of gender violence: specialist stations in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
7. Decoding of restorative justice practices: Evidence from Indian police stations
8. Desistance-led policing in the Maldives: A new way of policing persistent offenders
9. Policing indigenous communities in Canada
10. Rethinking community policing in Fiji
11. ‘Light touch’ police reform: The Tonga Police Development Program
12. Citizens’ trust and legitimacy in the police in Africa: A survey of past and present studies to improve future studies
13. Professionalising or politicising a profession: Politics, the PEQF, and policing in England and Wales
14. National levers for reform of decentralised policing systems

SECTION III - Redistribute Public Safety
15. Redistributing resources, rank, and relationships to reduce harm in public safety responses
16. Propinquity and public safety
17. Crowdsourcing in missing person investigations: Opportunities for police to foster public trust
18. When we need you, we will call you’: Policing through social contract in a localised health setting
19. The policing of dis/ability
20. Arts and policing: Imagining new approaches to police-community relationships?
21. The Policing of African migrants in Australia
22. Lost in translation: Policing and alternatives to mental health crisis
23. Missing communities: A novel approach to police-community partnerships
24. Envisaging the future of community safety and wellbeing: Practical examples of policing and public health collaborations
25. Civic heroes or untrained allies? A critical examination of policing views on bystander intervention
26. Beyond communities and securitarianism: Plural security in Umbria

SECTION IV - Replacing the Police
27. Building up, not breaking down: Replacing systems of exclusion and harm
28. Police reformism and the challenges of decolonialism and abolitionism
29. The failed indigenisation experiment: A critical analysis of the state-of-exception policing in Aotearoa New Zealand
30. Policing of urban margins, police accountability, and contested Human Rights: An enquiry into a Chilean neighbourhood
31. An Elders-led response to the criminalisation of aboriginal young people in a remote community
32. The Rojava revolution and alternative models of policing
33. Freedom House: A critical counternarrative
34. Sex workers, work! Anticarceral practices to decriminalisation
35. Reclaiming public safety: How lessons from harm reduction can help us realise a police-free future
36. Crowdsourcing as a strategy to monitor police drug dog detection operations in New South Wales: The ‘Sniff Off’ case study
37. Pain compliance, disability, and state accountability: Lessons from Chile and Colombia on the form and function of less lethal weapons
38. Confronting the unconfronted: Colonial legacies and policing in the Swedish suburb
39. Considerations for police abolition in the Global South