Trends in Policing

Dilip K. Das served as a police chief before joining academia. He is the founding president of International Police Executive Symposium, which brings police researchers and practitioners together to facilitate cross-cultural, international, and interdisciplinary exchanges for the enrichment of the profession. Dr. Das also serves as the founding editor-in-chief of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. His publications include more than two dozen books and numerous articles. He is a professor of criminal justice and a human rights consultant to the United Nations.Otwin Marenin is a professor in the criminal justice program at Washington State University. He received his BS degree from Northern Arizona University and his MA and PhD degrees (in comparative politics) from UCLA . He has taught at Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Benin in Nigeria and the Universities of Baltimore, California, Colorado, and Alaska-Fairbanks in the United States. His research and publications have focused on policing systems in Native American communities in the United States and communities in Africa, especially Nigeria. More recent, he has done research and written on developments in international policing, police in UN peacekeeping operations, transnational police assistance programs, and efforts to reform the policing systems in failed, transitional, and developing states.