Reimagining Policing in Pakistan: Problems and Prospects of Change, Innovation, and Reform - Softcover

Baloch, J. J.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798419385153

Publisher: Independently published, 2022

Synopsis

Book Description
Worldwide, police departments undergo drastic transformations. The challenges of terrorism, democracy, technology, innovation, social media, and the rule of law emphasise reimagining the values, models, approaches, and strategies of policing for dealing with crime, disorder, and violence in society. The leading concern of democratic nations is to explore the ways and means of balancing police authority with civil liberty and crime control with justice. Despite the importance of this conversation, no significant effort has been made to contextualise the discourse in response to postmodern developments in both societies to police. This book embarks upon finding the answer to the following question:
Why and how transforming police for the government into police for the people has become an important goal and existential challenge for struggling democracy in Pakistan?
To address the above question, this book utilises a combination of research methods such as case studies, primary and secondary data analysis, and participant observation. The research methodology will be doctrinal with the inductive reasoning method following the Harvard referencing pattern. It discusses the ideals, principles, and structures of police organisations in Pakistan as a case study. To explore and frame this project theoretically, this book engages with a contemporary policing scholarship to evaluate the challenges and opportunities of transforming policing in Pakistan. The discourse brings forth new and emerging global scholarship and research on policing in the under-researched policing context of Pakistan.
The primary purpose is to explore the various facets of policing in Pakistan academically. In the wake of the global war on terrorism, the subject of policing has gained much importance and received significant attention since 2001. Police organisations have struggled to reform and evolve alongside advancements in technology, organised crime, and rapidly changing societies. This book reimagines policing in Pakistan in the context of these new challenges and about current debates within scholarship on policing and criminology. In addition, the book offers valuable and original contributions in policing by a practitioner-Mr JJ Baloch, who has 22 years of policing experience. This academic work on policing in Pakistan is unprecedented and provides a scholarly contribution to broader debates on reforming police organisations in the developing world.
From a given perspective, this discourse accommodates various strategic measures conditioned by cultural, social, economic, political, and civil factors. Pakistan has unique political, social, and cultural conditions. The book will attract global academic audiences because of Pakistan's importance as the most turbulent part and a hotbed of international proxies, terrorism, and extremism. The conversation invites global inquiries regarding policing, law enforcement, criminal justice, and governance issues in Pakistan. International academia, investigative journalism, and police professionals relating to criminal justice, counterterrorism, counter-extremism, counter-militancy, and counter-insurgency will find this conversation interesting and useful.
The research methodology will be doctrinal with the inductive reasoning method utilising a combination of research methods such as case studies, primary and secondary data analysis, and participant observation. This research finds that policing no longer remains the exclusive domain of police and calls for strategic partnerships between police and non-police actors in the postmodern age.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798419385153
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284