Sebastian Roché is a CNRS Research Professor at Sciences Po Grenoble, University of Grenoble-Aples, France, specializing in comparative policing studies. He is the author, with Dietrich Oberwittler, of Police Citizens Relations Across the Word: Comparing Sources and Contexts of Trust and Legitimacy (2018).

Jenny Fleming is Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK and Editor in Chief of Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy. Her recent book, The International Handbook of Policing Ethnography was published in 2023.

Foreword Preface-Why study policing comparatively? Introduction-Cross-national research: A new frontier for police studies 1. Police worker politics in India, Brazil, and beyond 2. Police, non-state actors, and political legitimacy in Central America 3. Trust in the police and the militarization of law enforcement in Latin America 4. Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe 5. How national contexts matter: A Study of police-adolescent encounters in France and Germany 6. Legitimacy and cooperation with the police: Examining empirical relationships using data from Africa 7. The inevitable fallibility of policing