• Provides an overview of the history of Black Police Associations and their role within constabularies
• Analyses how race and ethnicity are constructed and sustained within constabularies and how they have changed during the last two decades
• Offers a sociological analysis of the subject, providing readers with a distinct perspective on understanding race within criminal justice institutions
• Discusses a number of implications for change within the management of constabularies
• Compares Black Police Associations in UK forces with those in the USA

Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students of Criminology, Sociology, and Police Studies, in the UK and throughout other parts of the world; the research community; university libraries.

Simon Holdaway, Head of the School of Law and Professor of Criminology & Sociology, University of Sheffield

1: Black Police Associations: Context and Perspective
2: Black Police Associations: From Ethnic Group to Ethnic Association
3: Black Police Associations: Why Join? What Do They Do?
4: Racism: Old and New Forms
5: 'Police Ethnicity'
6: Constabulary change?
7: Constructing Race and Ethnicity within Constabularies