List of Figures and TablesList of ContributorsForewordAcknowledgments
SECTION I. Conceptual Frameworks
1 'Who ya gonna call?' Peelian ghosts, contemporary contradictions, and conceptualising critical policing studies
Nicole L. Asquith, Jess Rodgers, Gary Cordner, Angela Dwyer, James Clover, and Rishweena Ahmed
2 Origin stories and the possibilities of policing
Jonah Miller
3 Policing and the myth of public safety
Amanda Porter
SECTION II. Reform the Police
4 Reforming policing
Gary Cordner and Rishweena Ahmed
5 Reformism, abolitionism and the structural context of policework
Roger Grimshaw, Tony Jefferson
6 Reform and the policing of gender violence: specialist stations in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jess Rodgers, Kerry Carrington, María Victoria Puyol, Máximo Sozzo, and Vanessa Ryan
7 Decoding of restorative justice practices: Evidence from Indian police stations
Michael L. Valan
8 Desistance-led policing in the Maldives: A new way of policing persistent offenders
Rishweena Ahmed
9 Policing indigenous communities in Canada
John Kiedrowski, Nicholas A. Jones, and John Domm
10 Rethinking community policing in Fiji
Anand Chand
11 'Light touch' police reform: The Tonga Police Development Program
Tyler Cawthray
12 Citizens' trust and legitimacy in the police in Africa
Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh
13 Professionalising a profession: The PEQF and policing in England and Wales
Jennifer Hough and David Marshall
14 National levers for reform of decentralised policing systems
James Harris and Gary Cordner
SECTION III. Redistribute Public Safety
15 Redistributing resources, rank, and relationships to reduce harm in public safety responses
Angela Dwyer and James Clover
16 Propinquity and public safety
Nicole Asquith and Jess Rodgers
17 Crowdsourcing in missing person investigations: Opportunities for police to foster public trust
Scott Duncan
18 When we need you, we will call you': Policing through social contract in a localised health setting
Monique Marks and Dhiya Pillay Matai
19 The policing of dis/ability
Cameron Russell and Clare Farmer
20 Arts and policing: imagining new approaches to police-community relationships?
Rachel Lewis and Jacqueline S. Hodgson
21 Policing African migrants in Australia
Samuel Sakama and Joseph Chitambo
22 Lost in translation: Policing and alternatives to mental health crisis
Sabrina C. Taylor and Heather M. Ross
23 Missing communities: A novel approach to police-community partnership
Maureen Taylor and Dave Grimstead
24 Envisaging the future of community safety and wellbeing: Practical examples of policing and public health collaborations
Carla Chan Unger, Nick Crofts, and Auke van Dijk
25 Civic heroes or untrained allies? A critical examination of bystander intervention in co-production policing
Nick Evans
26 Beyond communities and securitarianism: Plural security in Umbria
Stefano Anastasia, Antonino Azzarà, and Vincenzo Scalia
SECTION IV. Replace the Police
27 Building up, not breaking down: Replacing systems of exclusion and harm
Jess Rodgers and Nicole Asquith
28 Police reformism and the challenges of decolonialism and abolitionism
Chris Cunneen
29 The failed Indigenisation experiment: a critical analysis of the state-of-exception policing in Aotearoa New Zealand
Adele N. Norris, Antje Deckert, and Juan Tauri
30 Policing of urban margins, police accountability and contested Human Rights: An enquiry into a Chilean neighbourhood
Gonzalo García-Campo Almendros and Pascual Cortés
31 An Elders-led response to the criminalisation of Aboriginal Young People in a Remote Community
Peta MacGillivray, Virginia Robinson and Ruth McCausland
32 The Rojava revolution and alternative models of policing
Hawzhin Azeez
33 Freedom House: A critical counternarrative
Tiffany Yang
34 Sex workers, work! Anticarceral practices to criminalisation
Alisson Rowland
35 Reclaiming public safety: How lessons from harm reduction can help us realise a police-free future
Phillip Wadds and George Dertadian
36 Crowdsourcing as a strategy to monitor police drug dog detection operations in New South Wales: The 'Sniff Off' case study
Justin R. Ellis
37 Pain compliance, disability, and state accountability: Lessons from Chile and Colombia on the form and function of less lethal weapons
Javier Eduardo Velásquez Valenzuela and Lucía Guerrero Rivière
38 Confronting the unconfronted: Colonial legacies and policing in the Swedish suburb
Amanda Lanigan and Noor Nassef
39 Considerations for Police Abolition in the Global South
Leighann Spencer
