Higher Education and Police

1. Introduction: Higher Police Education—An International Perspective
Colin Rogers, Bernhard Frevel

Part I. Professionalisation

2. Education and the Police Professionalisation Agenda: A Perspective from England and Wales
Stephen Tong, Katja M. Hallenberg

3. Police Basic Training in Sweden: Vocational or Academic? An Educational Muddle
Anders Green

4. The New Zealand Context: Finding Common Ground in the Land of the Long White Cloud
Stephen Darroch

Part II. Innovation

5. The College of Policing: Police Education and Research in England and Wales
Colin Rogers, Bethan Smith

6. Police Higher Education in China
Zheng Chen

7. Higher Education and Democratic Policing: Challenges from Latin America
José-Vicente Tavares dos Santos

8. Higher Police Education in Europe: Surveying Recent Developments
André Konze, Detlef Nogala

Part III. Application

9. Responding to Needs of Higher Analytical Competence in the Police: Master Programmes at the Norwegian Police University College
Aun Hunsager Andresen, Nina Jon

10. Starting as a Kommissar/Inspector? – The State’s Career System and Higher Education for Police Officers in Germany
Bernhard Frevel

11. Higher Police Education in the Netherlands
Jan Heinen, Harry Peeters

12. Down Under: Police Education at the Charles Sturt University, Australia
Tracey Green

Nyckelord: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Crime Prevention, Quantitative Criminology, Violence and Crime, Rehabilitation