Main description:

This textbook addresses existing gaps in police research, education, and training, and provides guidance on how to respond to and address the vulnerability that arises in policing practice. It guides students through the conceptual and also the practical issues of managing vulnerability in policing with case studies and practitioners' views from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the US, Canada, France, and beyond to the Maldives, China, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It includes key concepts, views from the front-line, further reading and activities in each chapter. Policing Practices and Vulnerable People is aimed at researchers and practitioners working with police. While focussed on democratic policing practices, this book includes case studies and practitioners' views from a wide range of approaches, including those from the Global South. This book provides readers with a framework that can assist them in converting conceptual knowledge to critical, ethical policing practice.

Contents:

Part I.Framing Vulnerability 1.Vulnerability and Policing Practices 2.Conceptual Understandings of Vulnerability 3.Politics, Policies, and Practices of Vulnerable People Policing 4.Public Health Models of Vulnerability Part II.Vulnerability in Practice 5.Community Engagement 6.Working with Vulnerable Offenders 7.Interviewing Vulnerable People 8.Police Liaison Part III.Critical Vulnerability Issues 9.Southernising Vulnerability 10.Police Vulnerability 11.Targeted Violence 12.Public Order Policing 13.Coda on Covid: Reframing Vulnerability: Policing Pandemics, Protests, and Disasters