Further reading suggestions: Chapter 23
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Singh, A-M. (2016) Policing and Crime Control in Post-apartheid South Africa, London, Routledge
This book offers an analytical account of the direction of crime control in South Africa in the period after the end of apartheid, focusing on the relationship between the official stage policing agencies and the use of private security as an alternative means of securing control. -
Ariel, B. and Partridge, H. (2016) ‘Predictable Policing: Measuring the Crime Control Benefits of Hotspots Policing at Bus Stops’, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, online, doi 10.1007/s10940-016-9312-y
This article reports on a straightforward analysis of the displacement effects of one example of ‘hot spot policing’, indicating that where police behaviour is predictable, offenders will adapt their behaviour accordingly. -
Bailey, V. (ed) (2016) Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain, Abingdon, Routledge
An interesting collection of chapters on the emergence and development of policing in a number of different settings during the nineteenth century.