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 contributors consider issues such as professionalization programmes, how higher education programmes influence police organizations, as well how higher education influences police practice in a global context.
Examining a wide array of countries from Germany to China and Brazil to show the flawed nature of an education system based purely upon an approach concerned with police officer numbers, the editors of this book argue for the need for greater scientific education among police around the world to meet contemporary developments. A timely and well-informed study, this book meets a crucial gap in the literature and will serve as an important contribution to existing work on policing, crime prevention, and theoretical criminology.
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 ofHigher
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 States 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.
Colin Rogers is Professor of Police Sciences and Head of Research at the International Centre for Policing and Security, The University of South Wales, UK. He is also a visiting Professor at Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia.
Bernhard Frevel is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
