Higher Education and Police An International View /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rogers, Colin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Frevel, Bernhard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Crime prevention.; Criminology.; Research.; Violence.; Crime.; Criminals-Rehabilitation.; Crime Prevention.; Quantitative Criminology.; Violence and Crime.; Rehabilitation.

This edited collection is concerned with the ideas, challenges, demands and framework of conditions behind police education from an international perspective. Whilst not directly concerned with a classical comparison of education concepts from different countries, the broad range of international co...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Higher Police Education - an International Perspective; Colin Rogers & Bernhard Frevel
• Part 1- Professionalization
• Education and the Police Professionalisation Agenda: a Perspective from England and Wales; Steve Tong and Katja Hellenberg
• Police Basic Training in Sweden - Vocational or Academic? An Educational Muddle; Anders Green
• The New Zealand Context: Finding Common-Ground in the Land of the Long White Cloud; Steven Darroch
• Part 2 Innovation
• The College of Policing: Police Education and Research in England and Wales; Colin Rogers and Beth Smith
• Police Higher Education in China; William Chen
• Higher Education and Democratic Policing: Challenges from Latin America; José Vincente Tavares dos Santos
• A Comparative Look on the Developments of Higher Education and Policing across Europe; Detlef Nogala & Andre Konze
• Part 3- Application
• Responding to Needs of Higher Analytical Competence in the Police: Master Programs at the Norwegian Police University College; Aun Hunsager Andresen and Nina Jon
• Starting as a Kommissar / Inspector? The State's Career System and Higher Education for Police Officers in Germany; Bernhard Frevel
• Higher Police Education in the Netherlands;Jan Heinen and Harry Peeters
• Down Under - Police Education at the Charles Sturt University, Australia; Tracey Green and Mick Corboy.