Policing Change, Changing Police: International Perspectives (Current Issues in Criminal Justice (Garland Reference Library of Social Science))

First published in 1996. In keeping with the other volumes in the Current Issues in Criminal justice series, this anthology is a prime example of joining readability and scholarship. Editor Otwin Marenin has thoughtfully commissioned and compiled an excellent group of essays on the role of police in changing societies by a very knowledgeable group of scholars. Moreover, Marenin has added substantially to the collection through his own insightful contributions. What happens to the roles, functions, and activities of the police during major societal changes, such as now occurring in the former USSR, Central America, South Africa, or the European Community?