Explore further with these author curated useful sites.

The Police Executive Research Forum was established in the US 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 a helpful resource.

The College of Policing website provides a similar range of material and is particularly useful for those interested in learning more about the professionalization debate. The website for the Society for Evidence-Based Policing also contains useful information on this strategy.

There are a number of useful blogs and websites offering debate and opinion on contemporary policing. Among these are the Police Oracle site, the British Society of Criminology Policing Network blog, and the police chiefs’ blog.