Police and Social Conflict

<p>Policing remains one of the most controversial areas of criminal justice. Recent years have seen major changes in every aspect of policing: new constructions of the police mission new ways of delivering police services and new arrangements for police accountability. </p><p>The police have had to respond to international terrorism international organized crime the new faces of migration and asylum globalization and the reconstitution of societies in the post-Communist and Islamic world. This completely revised second edition argues that through these changes enduring and fundamental divisions can be traced. </p><p>The book is relevant to those studying criminology police studies sociology social policy and law wherever their interests touch on the police.</p>