This fully updated and expanded new version builds upon the success of the first edition and aim to provide an up-to-date and authoritative account of recent developments and provide an overview of policing in Scotland, with an updated description of the basic factual information about Scottish policing as it stands in the present age.

This fully updated and expanded second edition of Policing Scotland provides an authoritative account of recent developments, as well as an overview of policing in Scotland. The book includes new and revised chapters on: historical developments that have shaped modern policing * the important and challenging areas of police management * resource management and the role of police unionism * policing of crime and disorder * community policing in Scotland * policing young people and ethnic minorities * crime investigation * youth justice * human rights legislation * the role of policing within the wider Scottish criminal justice system * forensic science.