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Book SynopsisThe Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police reform, crowd violence, and many more. By combining research and theory in criminology, psychology, and communication, this handbook provides a foundation for identifying and understanding many of the issues that challenge police and the public in today’s society. It is an important and comprehensive analysis of the enormous changes in the roles of gender in society, digital technology, social media, and organizational structures have impacted policing and public perceptions about law enforcement.
Trade ReviewPolicing necessitates people and government communicate. Absent communication, the police often struggle and fail. Policing is not an abstraction; rather, it provides content and meaning for the police and their constituents. In an era of over-numerating policing, bringing meaning to the bean counting is a major achievement of The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society. The editors offer a rich mosaic centering communications at the core of policing, where it belongs. A must read for serious police and civil leaders, and police scholars.
-- Jack R. Greene, Professor Emeritus, Northeastern University
Giles, Maguire, and Hill have created a milestone Handbook – a comprehensive, balanced, theory-led, and evidence-based account of policing in all its forms. They frame policing as intergroup communication, in a context where lives are at stake, and thus highlight the crucial importance of communication and social identity. This timely and cogent book is a key resource for everyone in social psychology and communication, and it will have a major and needed impact on policy, practice, and the discussion of policing in society.
-- Cindy Gallois, Past President of the International Communication Association and Professor Emeritus, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia
Table of ContentsFOREWORD (Darrell Stephens, Education, John Hopkins University, USA)
I: POLICING AND THE COMMUNITY
Ch. 1: Prologue (Editors as co-authors).
Ch. 2: Police culture: Us versus them communication (Shawn Hill, Howie Giles, & Miles Hewstone, Psychology, University of Oxford, UK)
Ch. 3: Community policing as communication reform (Ed Maguire & William Wells, Law Enforcement Management,Sam Houston State University, TX, USA).
Ch. 4: Officer-community complaint mediation. (Bernard Melekian,Public Safety, Santa Barbara County, USA).
Ch. 5: Crowd theory, communication and policing (CliffordStott,Psychology, University of Keele, UK).
Ch. 6: Speaking truth from power: Communicating realistic expectations of the police (Michael Scott,Public Service & Community Solutions, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA).
II: INTERGROUP BIASES INSIDE AND OUTSIDE POLICING
Ch. 7: Race, Policing and Communication: Old Problems, 21
st Century Struggles
(Travis Dixon, Marisa Smith, & Kristopher Weeks,Communication, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA).
Ch. 8: Intergroup biases: Policing and gender (Cara Rabe-Hemp,Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, USA) & Amie M. Schuck (Criminology, Law & Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA).
Ch. 9: Policing and LBGTQ+ Communities (Stephen S. Owen,Criminology, Radford University, VA, USA).
Ch. 10: Policing Muslim communities: The importance of communication and procedural justice (Kristina Murphy, Criminology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia).
Ch. 11: The media and our perception of the police (Jan Van den Bulck,Communication, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA).
Ch. 12: Law enforcement and enforcement partnerships: Chancing communication skills and interventions with people I crisis (Ellen Scrivner, Transformative Police Reform, Public Safety Innovations, Sanibel, Florida, USA).
III: POLICING, COMMUNITY COMPLAINTS, AND CRIME
Ch. 13: A language analysis of traffic stop decisions (Belen Lowrey-Kinberg,Sociology & Criminal Justice, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NY, USA).
Ch. 14: Policing hate crimes and terrorism in the digital age (Brian Blakemore,Police Sciences, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK).
Ch. 15: Understanding the communication dynamics inherent to police crisis negotiation (Amy Grubb,Forensic Psychology, The University of Worcester, UK).
Ch. 16: Communication dynamics in the wake of homicide. (Fiona Brookman, Criminology, University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK) & Dean Dabney,Criminal Justice & Criminology. Georgia State University, Athens, USA)
Ch 17: Enhancing the law enforcement response to sexual assault and domestic violence (Carrie Bettinger-Lopez, Law, University of Miami, USA & Tamar Ezer, Law, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA)
EPILOGUE: Ch 18. (Theory, praxis, and the future [Editors as co-authors]).
