Comparing Police Organizations : The Importance of National Contexts (Paperback)

Foreword Preface?Why study policing comparatively? Introduction?Cross-national research: A new frontier for police studies 1. Police worker politics in India, Brazil, and beyond 2. Police, non-state actors, and political legitimacy in Central America 3. Trust in the police and the militarization of law enforcement in Latin America 4. Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe 5. How national contexts matter: A Study of police-adolescent encounters in France and Germany 6. Legitimacy and cooperation with the police: Examining empirical relationships using data from Africa 7. The inevitable fallibility of policing