Hard Cop, Soft Cop

Roger Hopkins Burke is Principal Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. His research interests include criminological theory, young people and crime, generic policing and social control, and crime prevention. Recent publications include Zero Tolerance Policing (Perpetuity Press, 1998), An Introduction to Criminological Theory, 3e (Willan Publishing, 2009), and Young People, Crime and Justice (Willan Publishing, 2008).

• 1. Introduction: policing contemporary society Part 1: Policing Contemporary Communities 2. Zero tolerance in New York City: hard questions for a get-tough policy 3. Policing incivilities in Germany 4. Over-policing and under-policing social exclusion 5. Policing British Asian communities 6. Discipline and flourish: probation and the new correctionalism 7. 'Softly, softly', private security and the policing of corporate space Part 2: Policing Contemporary Offences 8. Using crackdowns constructively in crime reduction 9. Tackling the roots of theft: reducing tolerance toward stolen goods markets 10. Stalking the stalker: a review of policing strategies 11. Policing financial crime: the Financial Services Authority and the myth of the 'duped investor' 12. Hard coating, soft centre? The role of the police in Dordrecht offender rehabilitation programmes Part 3: Democracy, Accountability and Human Rights 13. What's law got to do with it? Some reflections on the police in light of developments in New York City 14. Policing and the Human Rights Act 1998 15. Human rights v. community rights: the case of the Anti- Social Behaviour Order 16. Conclusion: policing contemporary society revisited