The contribution of David H. Bayley, policing research pioneer

This essay chronicles the contribution of leading international policing scholar - David H. Bayley. Although he may first and foremost be regarded as a political scientist, it is in the field of international policing studies where he became preeminent. The article makes the case that Professor Bayley is a policing research pioneer and it draws upon interviews and correspondence with him, and those who know him, as well as a review of his extensive body of scholarship spanning seven decades.