This book tackles the contentious issue of policing in an age of controversy and uncertainty. It is a timely book written by police scholars - predominantly former practitioners from Europe, Australia and North America - who draw from their own research and operational experiences to illuminate key issues relating to police reform in the present day. While acknowledging some relevance of usual proposed models, such as problem-solving, evidence-based policing and procedural justice, the contributors provide an insider look at a variety of perspectives and approaches to police reform which have emerged in recent decades. It invites university students, criminologists, social scientists, police managers, forensic scientists to question and adapt their perspectives on a broad range of topics such as community policing, hate crime, Islamic radicalisation, neighborhood dynamics, situational policing, antidiscrimination and civil society, police ethics, performance measures, and advances in forensic science, technology, intelligence and more in an accessible and comprehensive manner. 

Chapter 1. Introduction to Policing in an Age of Reform

Chapter 2. Changing the Game: A Sociological Perspective on Police Reform
Chapter 3. Community Policing: Often Advocated, Rarely Practiced
Chapter 4. A Global Overview of Policing in an Age of Reform
Chapter 5. Community Dynamics, Collective Efficacy, and Police Reform
Chapter 6. Policing Hate Crime: Dilemmas in Policy and Practice
Chapter 7. Police Responses to Islamic Radicalisation and Violent Extremisms
Chapter 8. Forensic Science Understanding by Police Managers: New Opportunities to Re-think Its Involvement in Policing
Chapter 9. Managing Police Performance
Chapter 10. Cooperation Between Police and Civil Society
Chapter 11. Digital Transformation if Forensic Science and Intelligence
Chapter 12. Tools for a New Situational Policing
Chapter 13. Heaven or Hell: Social Media for Intelligence
Chapter 14. Doing Right: Police Ethics inan Age of Reform
Chapter 15. The Allegory of the Dangerous Intersection: A Structural View of Law Enforcement and Social Problems
Chapter 16. Conclusions and Future Directions in Policing.