Policing Practices and Vulnerable People

Professor Nicole L Asquith is the Professor of Policing and Emergency Management, and Director of the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Nicole has worked for and with policing services for over 25 years, primarily in relation to hate crime, sexual violence, and DFV victimisation.Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, and a Senior Researcher at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, Australia. She is an award-winning police educator, and coordinates the Tasmania Police Recruit Course for the University, within which she teaches on police interactions with vulnerable people.

• Part I. Framing Vulnerability.- 1. Vulnerability and Policing Practices.- 2. Conceptual Understandings of Vulnerability.- 3. Politics, Policies, and Practices of Vulnerable People Policing.- 4. Public Health Models of Vulnerability.- Part II Vulnerability in Practice.- 5. Community Engagement.- 6. Working with Vulnerable Offenders.- 7. Interviewing Vulnerable People.- 8. Police Liaison.- Part III. Critical Vulnerability Issues.- 9. Southernising Vulnerability.- 10. Police Vulnerability.- 11. Targeted Violence.- 12. Public Order Policing.- 13. Coda on Covid: Reframing Vulnerability: Policing Pandemics, Protests, and Disasters.