This comprehensive text provides an overview of law enforcement topics, integrating major empirical findings and theory-based research findings in the field with a thorough analysis of contemporary policing problems. The issues-oriented discussion focuses on critical concerns facing American police, including personnel systems, organization and management, operations, discretion, use of force, culture and behavior, ethics and deviance, civil liability and police-community relations. A critical assessment of police history and the role politics played in the development of American police institutions is offered. Globalization, terrorism and homeland security are addressed. Video links provide additional coverage of topics discussed in the text.

Product Description: Feminist Theory, Crime, and Social Justice offers an insightful look at the primarily masculine-driven perspective on crime and justice through the lens of feminist theory. The book presents the argument that an increased understanding of the female crime typology, life course, and gender-specific programming will improve social justice for offenders...read more

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An effective analysis of civil liability in U.S. policing! Newly revised with an updated selection of cases, this new edition goes even further to fulfill the growing need to educate students of justice in civil liability, once again integrating civil law, social science and police studies. The necessity of such a text continues to be demonstrated by the fact that law, administrative practice, and police operations have become so entangled that a modern police administrator can no longer be effective without a basic understanding of the principles of civil liability. The book addresses some of the many issues confronting modern law enforcement officers and includes items that demonstrate the "real world" impact of judicial decisions. An entirely new chapter on "Police Liability for Abandoning Citizens in Dangerous Places and Situations" has been added for this edition. Where appropriate, the author has incorporated the many findings of police science research into the legal discussions to place the law in a meaningful context for future police officers or executives.

This up-to-date collection provides multiple foundations for understanding some of the most compelling issues confronting both the police and society. The articles in this anthology serve as touchstones for one another-- measuring and questioning the value of each contribution to our understanding of the dynamic interrelationships between the police and society. Readers can use these articles as a blueprint for systematic inquiry: to identify background assumptions; to recognize how values influence questions raised; to determine if findings were relevant only in a particular context; to discover connections, mutual influences and divergences of opinion. Exposure to some of the best scholarship on the relationship between police and society serves as a benchmark for our own construction and perception of that connection.

Product Description: Exploration of riveting issues in the criminal justice field! This much-acclaimed volume challenges many popular preconceived notions of crime, criminals, and crime control as it provides an insightful exploration of factors that shape popular conceptions of crime...read more

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Product Description: Book by Cordner, Gary W., Gaines, Larry K., Kappeler, Victor E. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)