Policing Encounters with Vulnerability Book Published

Nicole L Asquith, Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron and Karl Roberts have published a new book titled Policing Encounters with Vulnerability.

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.

About the Authors

Nicole L Asquith is an Associate Professor of Policing and Criminal Justice at the Western Sydney University, and is a University Associate with TILES. In 2014 she was appointed a Co-Director of the Vulnerability, Resilience and Policing Research Consortium (VRPRC).

Dr Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron is a Senior Lecturer and Discipline Coordinator of Police Studies, University of Tasmania, and is a Senior Researcher with TILES. Dr Bartkowiak-Théron is a Co-Director of the Vulnerability, Resilience and Policing Research Consortium (VRPRC).

Karl Roberts is a forensic psychologist and Professor and Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice at the Western Sydney University, and is also a member of the (VRPRC).

Chapters in this Book

Vulnerability as a Contemporary Challenge for Policing
Bartkowiak-Théron, Isabelle (et al.)

Problematising and Reconceptualising ‘Vulnerability’ in the Context of Disablist Violence
Thorneycroft, Ryan

Embodying Youthful Vulnerabilities and Policing Public Spaces
Dwyer, Angela

Some Implications of the Moral Vulnerability of Police
Corbo Crehan, Anna

A Federation of Clutter: The Bourgeoning Language of Vulnerability in Australian Policing Policies
Howes, Loene M (et al.)

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

Police as Public Health Interventionists
Asquith, Nicole L (et al.)

Police Interviews with Survivors of Historic Child Sexual Abuse: Challenges and Solutions
Roberts, Karl A

(Gender) and Vulnerability: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence
Winter, Romy

The Vulnerability of Police in Policing the Vulnerable Community of Macquarie Field
Wooden, Ken

Honour-Related Beliefs and Risk of Harm: Theory and Challenges for Policing
Roberts, Karl A