Police Leadership

Professor Jenny Fleming joined the University of Southampton as Professor of Criminology in 2012 where she is also the Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Research. Professor Fleming's expertise lies in collaborative research covering such topics as police partnerships, police leadership and management. She is interested in organizational imperatives that impact on the way in which 'police do business' and has published widely in this area. She is the co-author of Fighting Crime Together: The Challenges of Policing and Security Networks (with Jennifer Wood) and The Sage Dictionary of Policing (with Alison Wakefield). Professor Fleming is the Editor-in-Chief of Policing and Society, an international journal of research and policy, the leading policing peer-reviewed journal in the UK. Professor Fleming is part of the University Consortium in partnership with the College of Policing, supporting a programme for the newly established What Works Centre for Crime Reduction.

1. Experience and Evidence: The Learning of Leadership ; 2. Leading in Austerity ; 3. Politics and Policing: The Terrible Twins ; 4. Working in Partnership: The Challenges of Working across Organizational Boundaries, Cultures, and Practices ; 5. Leadership, Management, and Command in the Police ; 6. Principled and Ethical Policing: Some Considerations for Police Leaders ; 7. 'Say it Loud Without a Frown; Good Investigators Write it Down': Theories of Leading Ethical Investigations ; 8. When Should They Get Engaged? Police-Community Engagement ; 9. Police Leadership in Fractured Societies ; 10. Women in Police Leadership ; 11. Contested Knowledge: Learning to Lead in a Policing Context ; 12. Making Connections between Research and Practice: Tackling the Paradox of Policing Research ; 13. Change Leadership: The Application of Alternative Models in Structural Policing Changes