Table of Contents

Preface 1. The history of police image work 1829-1987 2. The professionalisation of police image work since 1987 3. The national picture: systems of police image work 4. Police image work at the local level: a force and its mission 5. Press and public relations officers at work 6. Image work and operational policing 7. Conclusions: image work, police work and legitimacy

About the Author

Rob C. Mawby is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leicester University. He was previously Senior Lecturer and Head of the Centre for Public Services Management and Research at Staffordshire University. He has written extensively on various aspects of policing.

Reviews

'a stimulating analysis of a pivotal aspect of social control in our mass mediated age' Professor Robert Relner; London School of Economics