Professionalizing the Police is a timely reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda. The police have long struggled with the concept of professionalism. The Victorians veered from regarding police asservants to sanctifying policing as a special calling, while the supposed Golden Age of Policing was riven by divisions of class as sharp as those of the social diversity that poses one of contemporary policing's harshest tests. Police training has reflected these ambiguities and uncertainties. Theground its curriculum covers, pedagogy it employs, and structures through which it operates have been contested, troublesome to manage, and blamed for policing's failures. Behind these frictions lie large issues of governance, policing's place in society and what it means to be professional.Late modernity is marked by uncertainty and scepticism. In 'post-truth' times, professionalism must accommodate ambiguities of class, ethnicity and sexuality. The police languish as last believers in a monochrome vision of society while the norms that make for contemporary sociality have moved on toa multiplex of diversities that harbour new extremes both of tolerance and intolerance.True professionalism alerts practitioners to other ways of delivering social control and just societies: empowering citizens and encouraging autonomy; supporting new modes of social relationships and lifestyle; fitting provision to cases; pluralizing services. This yardstick is used to assess andchallenge the recruit and in-service curriculum and to tease out the options around which professionalism can be configured and embedded such that it plays its part in a humane, coherent, and accountable framework of police governance. The book will appeal to academics and postgraduate students inpolice research (across criminology, sociology, psychology, socio-legal studies) and the professions (sociology, political science), as well as senior police managers and trainers in the police service and other applied government bodies.

Professionalizing the Police: The Unfulfilled Promise of Police Training (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Fielding, Nigel G.

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Volume two in a series which provides reports on areas of British life conventionally conceived to be conflict-laden, assessing the scale and character of the conflict in those areas. The series aims to consider new or little-heeded evidence, balancing the claims of different commentators and placing such conflict in its historical and social contest, allowing intelligent judgements to be made. It provides prognoses about the likely development of that conflict and ascertain what measures have been taken to manage it and what success they have had, drawing on international experience where helpful. This book focuses on the police and social conflict. The media and the politicians draw one image of the police whereas empirical research portrays another. This book provides a dispassionate and systematic analysis of the role of the police in social conflict and advances and informs the debate with a synthesis of the evidence for and against. Fielding's other publications include "The National Front" (1981), "Probation Practice" (1984), "Linking Data" (1986), "Joining Forces" (1988) and "Action and Structure" (1988).

The Police and Social Conflict: Rhetoric and Reality (CONFLICT AND CHANGE IN BRITAIN: A NEW AUDIT)

UNKNO

266p white paperback, some pencil marks to pages, binding firm, index, very good and nice copy

Police and Social Conflict: Rhetoric and Reality (Conflict and Change in Britain Series-A New Audit; Vol. 2)

Linking Data (Qualitative Research Methods)

In the light of recent theoretical and methodological advances Linking Data describes the ways in which substantive problems and research issues can be tackled effectively through the inter-relationship of quantitative and qualitative data. They also include a discussion of multi-method research which is critical of the naive assumption that using several different methods necessarily ensures the validity of research findings.

Linking Data (Qualitative Research Methods Series 4)

Fielding, Jane L.

Sage Publications, Inc.

Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research (New Technologies for Social Research series)

The use of computers in qualitative research has redefined the way social researchers handle qualitative data. Two leading researchers in the field have written this lucid and accessible text on the principal approaches in qualitative research and show how the leading computer programs are used in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS). The authors examine the advantages and disadvantages of computer use, the impact of research resources and the research environment on the research process, and the status of qualitative research. They provide a framework for developing the craft and practice of CAQDAS and conclude by examining the latest techniques and their implications for the evolution of qualitative resear

LEE, Raymond

Sage Publications Ltd.

Joining Forces (Routledge Library Editions: Police and Policing)

Routledge

Merged Methods: A Rationale for Full Integration

About the Author\nGiampietro Gobo is Professor of Methodology of Social Research and Sociology of Science at the University of Milan (Italy). He was one of the founders of the ‘Qualitative Methods’ Research Network of the European Sociological Association.\nHis interests concern scientific controversies on health issues and workplace studies. He is currently undertaking projects on immunization and COVID-19 policies, and ethnographic experiments in the area of cooperation in small teamwork. His books include Doing Ethnography (Sage, 2008), Qualitative Research Practice (co-edited with C. Seale, J. F. Gubrium and D. Silverman, Sage, 2004) and Constructing Survey Data: An Interactional Approach (with S. Mauceri, Sage, 2014).\nNigel Fielding, BA (Sussex) MA (Kent) PhD (LSE), is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Community of Experts of the European Science Foundation, and served on the Mixed Methods Research Association’s presidential task force on the future of mixed methods.\nHis interests in research methodology include mixed methods, socio-spatial methods, qualitative software, interview methods, field observation, and digitally-mediated fieldwork. Nigel has authored/edited 27 books, many in research methodology, including The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Sage, 2018 (second edition), with Grant Blank and Ray Lee.\nGevisa La Rocca is Associate Professor of Sociology of Communication at the University Kore of Enna (Italy) and a member of the Scientific Council of the Processes and Cultural Institutions Group of the Italian Association of Sociology. She has a background in sociology, communication, quantitative and qualitative research methods.\nHer research interests cover communication research, hashtags studies, textual data analysis, risk studies. On these topics, she has written several articles for national and international journals (Sage Open, Revue Internationale De Sociologie, Barataria. Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias Sociales) and co-edited the book Technological and Digital Risk: Research Issues (with J. Martìnez-Torvisco, Peter Lang, 2020).\nWander van der Vaart is Associate Professor of Social Research Methodology at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht (The Netherlands) and serves as a Vice-President of RC33, the Research Committee on Logic and Methodology of the International Sociological Association. He has a background in quantitative and qualitative research methods, political science and psychology.\nHis interests are in flexible surveys and study designs for hard-to-study populations and phenomena. His publications appear in methods oriented journals (Field Methods, Journal of Official Statistics, Quality and Quantity, International Journal of Public Opinion Research) and substantive journals (Journal of Aging and Environment, Applied Cognitive Psychology).\nA new turn in mixed methods research is here: merged methods. This provocative book offers a novel analysis of current mixed methods research, complicating traditional approaches and challenging existing techniques. 
Moving beyond the binary quantitative-qualitative distinction, the book presents methodologically grounded ways to merge methods in social research and integrate interpretive and structural approaches in one instrument or procedure. 
The book: Considers the importance of merging both epistemologies and methodologies. Showcases eight merged methods research approaches, from the Delphi method to multimodal content analysis. Explores the opportunities for merging methods using computational techniques, such as text mining. 
This innovative book is a must-read for any postgraduate student or researcher across the social sciences wanting to develop their understanding of mixed methods research.

Gobo, Giampietro

La Rocca, Gevisa

van der Vaart, Wander

A new turn in mixed methods research is here: merged methods. This provocative book offers a novel analysis of current mixed methods research, complicating traditional approaches and challenging existing techniques. Moving beyond the binary quantitative-qualitative distinction, the book presents methodologically grounded ways to merge methods in social research and integrate interpretive and structural approaches in one instrument or procedure.&nbsp; The book:&nbsp; <ul> <li>Considers the importance of merging both epistemologies and methodologies.</li> <li>Showcases eight merged methods research approaches, from the Delphi method to multimodal content analysis.</li> <li>Explores the opportunities for merging methods using computational techniques, such as text mining.</li> </ul> This innovative book is a must-read for any postgraduate student or researcher across the social sciences wanting to develop their understanding of mixed methods research.

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Professionalizing the Police: The Unfulfilled Promise of Police Training (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

The Police and Social Conflict: Rhetoric and Reality (CONFLICT AND CHANGE IN BRITAIN: A NEW AUDIT)

Police and Social Conflict: Rhetoric and Reality (Conflict and Change in Britain Series-A New Audit; Vol. 2)

Linking Data (Qualitative Research Methods Series 4)

Linking Data (Qualitative Research Methods)

Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research (New Technologies for Social Research series)

Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research (New Technologies for Social Research series)

Joining Forces (Routledge Library Editions: Police and Policing)

Merged Methods: A Rationale for Full Integration

Merged Methods: A Rationale for Full Integration