Nigel Fielding

This is an important new book by a leading expert on community policing. It offers a detailed analysis of the activities, functions and operations of community police officers, and shows how community police officers gather information about crime from the communities in which they serve, and also how they apply informal social control to public disorder situations. Meer

Using original field data the book analyses how courts handle physical violence cases. It examines the questioning of defendants, witnesses and victims, how testimony and physical evidence is used, and what victims, witnesses, defendants, lawyers and judges think of the trial process. Meer

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has over the last decade made an increasing mark in several fields, notably health and medicine, education and social welfare. Meer

The National Front was one of the most controversial political parties in Britain. This exploration, first published in 1981, of the NF ideology and its meaning for members is based on a participation observation study which involved the development of relations with its headquarters, and with branch staff and members in several English cities. Meer