The eighth edition of this comprehensive collection includes carefully chosen articles with fresh perspectives on the most current trends in policing. Critical Issues in Policing provides ready access to the brightest minds in the field of policing. The 36 contributions sharpen understanding of the intricacies of police work and encourage readers to change from holding the police responsible for crime rates to holding them accountable for specific goals, tasks, and objectives. The new edition continues its authoritative, insightful coverage of complex elements of policing and presents vivid and pragmatic illustrations of law enforcement issues. The anthology offers an alternative to traditional policing texts. It covers philosophies of policing that guide discussions about police culture, police misconduct, use of force, operational concerns, and technological innovations.
The eighth edition of this comprehensive collection includes carefully chosen articles with fresh perspectives on the most current trends in policing.
Kelling , G. 1983. Reforming the Reformers . Kennedy School , Harvard University . Kelling , G. , T. Pate , D. Dieckman , and C. E. Brown . 1974. The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment : A Technical Report .
A collection of articles & essays by various authorities, many new or updated for this edtion.
Critical Issues in 21st Century Police Practice Philip Birch, Michael Kennedy, Erin Kruger ... Measuring Capacity Development and Reform in the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force. ... Globalization, Police Reform, and Development.
This is the first comprehensive text written that specifically deals with the complexity and ethical issues associated with the problems of police training.
Building on the strength of previous editions, the fourth edition presents a well-conceived, clearly stated analysis of complex issues confronting law enforcement officers and administrators.
This book does not merely seek to explain the causal relationship between repression and mobilization. Rather, it shows how social control strategies act on the mind and body of protesters.
... Dale K. Brown, and National Institute of Justice (U.S.), Calling the Police: Citizen Reporting of Serious Crime, National Institute of Justice Research Report (Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, ...
This text indicates law, administrative practice, and police operations have become so intertwined that police administrators can no longer be effective without understanding the principles of civil liability.
... York Police Department, former chief of the Houston police department, and former Houston mayor (1998–2004)—hold PhDs. Although the LEAA no longer exists on its own, it has since transformed into the National Institute of Justice.