Product Description: The criminal justice system in the United States is best described as a system of related, but not necessarily co-ordinated, agencies. Accountable to different branches of government and having different goals, they may even work to the detriment of each other...read more

Product Description: Like its well-received predecessor, the latest edition of Community Policing features important, cutting-edge works by scholars, practitioners, and researchers concerning the vital issues surrounding community policing. The well-organized, contemporary articles--each insightful and thought-provoking--cover historical frameworks, current research perspectives, the experiences and strategies of practitioners, and the future of community policing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Highly regarded for its authoritative coverage in five previous editions, this collection of articles written by experts and specialists examines the complex elements of policing within the broader social context. The thirty-one articles in the comprehensively revised sixth edition include seven that are entirely new and six that have been updated. This timely anthology provides access to fundamental information about the evolution of policing and its current composition; the distinctive make up of policing and police organizations; public assumptions and perceptions of police; and the effects of current trends in training, community-oriented policing, and use of high-tech information systems. In-depth coverage offers readers a vivid and pragmatic understanding of the issues confronting law enforcement personnel, policy makers, and the public.

Product Description: This Brief discusses methods to develop and maintain police – researcher partnerships.  First, the authors provide information that will be useful to police managers and researchers who are interested in creating and maintaining partnerships to conduct research, work together to improve policing and help others understand the linkages between the two groups...read more

Book by Haas, Kenneth C.

Product Description: Improving on its highly regarded predecessor, this new edition takes a multifaceted, well-rounded approach—addressing philosophical and historical perspectives on corrections as well as contemporary social and legal issues. Twenty-nine new selections (plus five retained from the previous collection) provide insight on the evolving philosophy behind punishment and imprisonment and address the historical evolution of corrections...read more

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Product Description: Building on the successful foundation of Policing Urban America, the authors have collaborated on this concise text to offer readers a solid overview of police work today. Policing: Continuity and Change combines theory, research, policy, and practical experience in a very readable presentation of the current context of policing...read more

Product Description: A fascinating and well-written book by an established researcher in the field. Alpert treats problems faced by police in rapidly changing multiethnic communities such as Miami-Dade County, the locus of the study. The focus on the relationship of informal and formal social control systems provides more insight into the vicissitudes of ethnic neighborhoods and their support of the police than might ever be gained from hours of Miami Vice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A balanced review of the most controversial issues in contemporary law enforcement! Alpert and Dunham offer readers a well- priced volume that studies the frameworks in which the police function and provides information on how to understand and improve policing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)