Clifford Stott, MBE, is currently Professor of Policing and Research at the Open University and the Academic Director of the Centre for Police Learning and Research, one of the University’s strategic research centres. He has held Visiting Professorships at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, Columbus, at Aarhus University in Denmark and Leeds University in the UK. He has also held a Senior Research Fellowship at University College London.Edward R. Maguire is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University, Phoenix, where he also directs the Public Safety Innovation Lab. He is Visiting Professor at the University of South Wales, UK, and Chair of the Research Advisory Board for the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF).

• 1. Introducing Policing the Crowd: From Rights to Realities Section I Historical, Legal, and Operational Foundations 2. Historical Foundations of Crowd Policing in the UK 3. Historical Foundations of Crowd Policing in the US 4. Legal Frameworks for Policing Crowds Section II Theoretical Foundations 5. The Crowd as a Threat: The Ideological Origins and Legacy of Classical Crowd Psychology 6. From Irrational Crowds to Collective Identity: The Social Identity Model 7. From Identity to Interaction: The Elaborated Social Identity Model of Crowd Conflict 8. Interaction, Identity, and Legitimacy: Revisiting the Theory of Public Order Policing Section III From Theory to Practice (Europe) 9. From Explanation to Intervention: Testing ESIM in Football Disorder 10. From Coercion to Consent: Institutionalising Dialogue in Protest Policing 11. Waves of Unrest: The Diffusion of Riots and Why Dialogue Policing Matters Section IV Contemporary Challenges and Reform in the US 12. From George Floyd to CHAZ: Protest, Policing, and Escalation in Seattle 13. From Conflict to Co-Production: The Columbus Model of Protest Policing 14. From Control to Facilitation: Science, Democracy, and the Future of Public Order Policing