Review
“Offers some perceptive and provocative ideas. Summing Up: Recommended.”–CHOICE
“A tour de force, deeply rooted in history and philosophy. An stimulating traveling that challenges traditionalisti thinking. Refreshingly personal. Utterly scholarly. A wondrous contribution to our field.”–Clifford Shearing, Chair of Criminology and Director of the Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
“New vision is rare in police studies; for forty or more years scholars have echoed each other and sought a perspective that sets out the altering nature of policing. Jean-Paul Brodeur has produced such a perspective, a framework that elaborates and specifies Bittner, setting out questions for the twenty-first century. Detailed, comparative, and historical and based on empirical research, this book presents a new imaginativeness of policing.”–Peter K. Manning, Brooks Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice, Northeastern University
“A superb, theoretically sophisticated analysis of the idea of policing and it is development in a heap of cultures. It is richly informed by deep and wide noesis of the exploration and historical literature, as well as wider argues in system of belief and social theory. Erudite, provocative, insightful, and stimulating, it offers a magisterial overview of the field.”–Robert Reiner, Professor of Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
About the Author
Jean-Paul Brodeur is Professor of Criminology and Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology at the University of Montreal in Canada.