Policing Encounters with Vulnerability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Vulnerability as a Contemporary Challenge for Policing

   • Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, Nicole L Asquith, Karl A Roberts

   Pages 1-24

3. Conceptualising Policing Encounters with Vulnerability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Problematising and Reconceptualising ‘Vulnerability’ in the Context of Disablist Violence

      • Ryan Thorneycroft

      Pages 27-45

   3. Embodying Youthful Vulnerabilities and Policing Public Spaces

      • Angela Dwyer

      Pages 47-69

   4. Some Implications of the Moral Vulnerability of Police

      • Anna Corbo Crehan

      Pages 71-86

4. Institutional Practices of Policing Encounters with Vulnerability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. A Federation of Clutter: The Bourgeoning Language of Vulnerability in Australian Policing Policies

      • Loene M Howes, Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, Nicole L Asquith

      Pages 89-117

   3. Re-Thinking ‘Vulnerability’ in the Context of ‘Diversity’: Cross-Cultural Reform in Policing Education and Training in Australia

      • Michele Grossman

      Pages 119-143

   4. Police as Public Health Interventionists

      • Nicole L Asquith, Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron

      Pages 145-171

5. Exceptional Policing Encounters with Vulnerability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Police Interviews with Survivors of Historic Child Sexual Abuse: Challenges and Solutions

      • Karl A Roberts

      Pages 175-198

   3. (Gender) and Vulnerability: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence

      • Romy Winter

      Pages 199-220

   4. The Vulnerability of Police in Policing the Vulnerable Community of Macquarie Field

      • Ken Wooden

      Pages 221-242

   5. Honour-Related Beliefs and Risk of Harm: Theory and Challenges for Policing

      • Karl A Roberts

      Pages 243-261

6. Back Matter

   Pages 263-273

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This edited collection brings together scholars and practitioners to consider the ways in which policing organisations approach vulnerability and the strategies they develop to reduce victims, offenders and police officers’ susceptibility to increased harm. Based on their work with policing services, the public criminologists and critical policing scholars collected together in this edited volume consider vulnerability in terms of people, processes, and institutional practices. While more attention is being paid to some experiences of vulnerability — particularly at the later stages of the criminal justice process — this collection will be the first to focus on the specific issues faced by policing services as the front end of criminal justice. The case studies of vulnerability in each chapter offer the reader new insights into the operational concerns in working with vulnerable people (including vulnerable police officers). This collection is ideally suited for scholars of applied criminal justice studies (including policing studies), police recruits and officers in training, and policing practitioners such as policy and program development officers.

• policy
• victims
• offenders
• policing
• hate crime
• sex abuse
• female genital mutilation
• Witnesses
• Law Enforcement
• Investigative skills

• Western Sydney University , Penrith, Australia

  Nicole L Asquith

• Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

  Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron

• University of Western Sydney , Penrith, Australia

  Karl A Roberts

Nicole L Asquith is the Associate Professor of Policing and Criminal Justice at Western Sydney University, Australia.

Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron is a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Coordinator of Police Studies in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia.



Karl Roberts is a forensic psychologist and is Professor and Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice at The University of Western Sydney, Australia.

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