Decision Making in Police Enquiries and Critical Incidents
What Really Works?
Editors: Roycroft, Mark, Roach, Jason (Eds.)
Free Preview- Comes from a mixture of practitioners and well-informed scholars
- Offers a a key addition to the fields of criminology, criminal justice and policing studies as well as for police professional leaders concerned with policy
- Asks: what qualities does an individual need to be a good police decision maker within a fast-moving environment?
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- About this book
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This book examines how the police make decisions in real life situations, particularly in major enquiries. The two key themes explored are real-time decision making along with what “works” in such circumstances. It aims to set out how successful decisions are arrived at in a variety of difficult and time-constrained situations and discusses the lessons that can be learnt from this. Written by practitioners and academics, the book explores a range of topics, from the decision making process involved operational matters and in difficult-so-solve murder enquiries. It not only examines decision making but also how experienced decision makers function. It looks at the psychology of police decision making, decision making involved in cold case investigations, and discusses the need for “grip” during major investigations. The contributors are experienced and respected practitioners and academics This book will appeal particularly to those studying Policing and Criminology and also to Investigating Officers and those involved in professionalising investigative practice.
- About the authors
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Mark Roycroft is Senior Lecturer at The Open University, UK, and he has lectured on terrorism, organised crime, criminology and investigative theory. He was formerly a police officer for 30 years in the Metropolitan Police Service with postings in homicide teams, counter terrorism and criminal intelligence. He is the author of Police Chiefs in the UK.
Jason Roach is the Director of the Applied Criminology and Policing Centre at the University of Huddersfield, the Editor of The Police Journal, and a chartered psychologist. Jason has worked in an academic setting for the past 15 years He has published research on a wide-range of topics including: investigative decision-making, terrorism, cold-case homicides, and evolutionary psychology. He has also co-authored three books with Professor Ken Pease, the most recent being Self-Selection Policing in 2016. His main area of research expertise is with police and offender decision-making.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Why Understanding Police Investigative Decision Making Is Important
Pages 1-13
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History of Decision-Making
Pages 15-34
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Good Practice Solving Factors
Pages 35-46
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Innate Reasoning and Critical Incident Decision-Making
Pages 47-67
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How a Major Incident Room Operates and the Management of Critical Incidents Ex DCI Harland N Yorks Police
Pages 69-81
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Decision Making in Police Enquiries and Critical Incidents
- Book Subtitle
- What Really Works?
- Editors
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- Mark Roycroft
- Jason Roach
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-349-95847-4
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-349-95847-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95846-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 168
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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