Police and Social Conflict

Nigel Fielding is Professor of Sociology and co-Director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Surrey, Guildford, England. His principal research interests are in policing and in social research methods. He was editor of the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice from 1985 to 1998, and amongst his works in the field of criminology are Joining Forces: Police Training, Socialisation and Occupational Competence (Routledge, 1988), Negotiating Nothing: Police Decision-making in Disputes (with C. Kemp and C. Norris; Avebury, 1992), Community Policing (Clarendon, 1995), The Economic Dimensions of Crime (editor, with A. Clarke and R. Witt; Macmillan, 2000), and Courting Violence (Clarendon, forthcoming in 2006).

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'Prof Fielding, of the University of Surrey, has provided a well-written and stimulating analysis of the complex, diverse and evolving character and context of policing in Britain in the early 21st century. This is academic work as it should be: grounded in reality, critical where necessary, and taking the longer view'. Police Review 3 February 2006 page 17