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