A collection of essays edited by Jennifer Brown (The Future of Policing, 2013, Routledge) provides an excellent overview of contemporary challenges and debates, and includes perspectives from around the world.

Issues relating to the potential for scientific and evidence-based criminology are debated in a series of articles published in Volume 9 of Criminology and Criminal Justice. In his article in that journal Sherman makes a case for evidence-based criminology, which is critiqued in articles by Hope and Tilley.

The coalition government’s proposals for police reform were largely set out in the paper Policing in the 21st Century: Reconnecting Police and People. That paper and a host of related material are available via the www.gov.uk site.

The Police Executive Research Forum was established in the USA in the 1970s and provides a wide range of publications and research reports related to debates addressed throughout this book. The Forum’s website is: http://www.policeforum.org/.

The College of Policing website provides a similar range of material and is particu­larly useful for those interested in learning more about the professionalisation debate: www.college.police.uk. The Society for Evidence-Based Policing website also contains useful information on this strategy: www.sebp.police.uk/.

The British Society of Criminology Policing Network blog http://bscpolic­ingnetwork.wordpress.com/pn-blog/; and the police chief’s blog www.acpo.police. uk/ThePoliceChiefsBlog/Default.aspx.

A special edition of Criminology and Criminal Justice examined the impact of financial austerity on contemporary policing and the articles below develop many of the debates explored in this chapter: Millie, A. (2013) ‘The Policing Task and the Expansion (and Contraction) of British Policing’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 13: 143–60. Reiner, R. (2013) ‘Who Governs? Democracy, Plutocracy, Science and Prophecy in Policing’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 13: 161–80. Hough, M. (2013) ‘Procedural Justice and Professional Policing in Times of Austerity’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 13: 181–97.

The consequences of insecurity in the urban environment generate demands on policing, and the context of these trends is outlined in: Sparks, R., Girling, E. and Loader, I. (2001) ‘Fear and Everyday Urban Lives’, Urban Studies 38(5–6): 885–98.