Lengthening the Arm of the Law: Enhancing Police Resources in the Twenty-First Century

by Julie Ayling, Peter Grabosky, Clifford Shearing

Book Overview

Relentless fiscal pressures faced by the public police over the last few decades have meant that police organisations have had to find new ways to obtain and harness the resources needed to achieve their goals. Through entering into relationships of coercion, commercial exchange, and gift with a wide variety of external institutions and individuals operating in both public and private capacities, police organisations have risen to this challenge...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052149351X
• ISBN13: 9780521493512
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"