Abstract This article sketches a case for the importance of allowing and protecting civil disobedience in democratic society. There are weighty reasons non-enforcement certain laws under circumstances, which undermines legalistic claim that justice requires police to faithfully (try to) enforce all at times. Furthermore, questions about how should respond disobedient demonstrations not settled ...

The growing interoperability between policing and child protection in Canada and the United Kingdom suggests that we are in the midst of a governmental shift from community governance to public safety governance. Indeed, discourses emphasizing local expertise in policing and child protection have largely muted because of criticisms over the lack of interagency interconnectedness. Both countries...

Watson and Huey, in a 2020 article this Journal, point out that there is still little empirical research offering practice-focused perspective. This Special Issue responds to call by variety of empirically theoretically informed studies centred on technology use the policing crime, borders society more widely (e.g. surveillance). Contributions are inspired Adam Crawford's insightful notion ‘as ...

In recent years there has been a move within police services towards a proactive and intelligence-led style of policing. This has coincided with a recognition of the value of local policing solutions and the importance of the intelligence function at the local area command level. This paper uses a combination of hotspot analysis within a geographical information system (GIS), a hotspot percepti...