Product Description: Exploring the complex and controversial topic of civilian oversight of police, this book analyzes the issues and debates entailed by civilian oversight by using worldwide perspectives, in-depth case studies, and a wealth of survey data...read more

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Product Description: This brief focuses on the “doing” of procedural justice: what the police can do to implement the principles of procedural justice, and how their actions can improve citizen perceptions of police legitimacy. Drawing on research from Australia (Mazerolle et al), the UK (Stanko, Bradford, Jackson etc al), the US (Tyler, Reisig, Weisburd), Israel (Jonathon-Zamir et al), Trinidad & Tobago (Kochel et al) and Ghana (Tankebe), the authors examine the practical ways that the police can approach engagement with citizens across a range of different types of interventions to embrace the principles of procedural justice, including: ·         problem-oriented policing ·         patrol ·         restorative justice ·         reassurance policing ·         and community policing...read more

Product Description: Leadership is demanding and challenging. How do leaders cope? How do they remain fit and strong, and thrive? The authors of Leadership Resilience, a business school academic and a police officer, suggest that many challenges faced by leaders are similar to the challenges experienced by police officers...read more

Product Description: This ethnographic study, which includes participant observation research and in-depth interviews with police officers in a major California city and a large East Coast city, explores how police officers use their discretionary time on the job—and the consequences...read more

Product Description: Nation expands the literature on citizens' attitudes toward the police by considering citizens preferences for police work. She argues that citizens' preferences can partly explain racial variations in citizens attitudes toward the police...read more

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Product Description: Using data from systematic social observations of police-citizen encounters, the statistical analyses demonstrate the importance of understanding the dynamics of police citizen encounters. The findings suggest how to enhance police legitimacy and improve the experiences of police citizen interactions...read more

Product Description: This text provides an accessible, up-to-date and thought-provoking introduction to policing for all those undertaking degrees and foundation degrees. It aims not only to inform students and prepare them for their course, but also to expose them to some of the challenges they will face as they begin their studies and/or policing careers...read more

Product Description: The local-level and international contributors of 'Shifting Positionalities' encompass particular common themes through in-depth social science research in an effort to understand the meanings of the reformulation of state discourses and practices in this post-9/11 era...read more

This text features hundreds of practice exam questions, special exam watch warnings that identify the most difficult questions to answer, special Command Reference for quick syntax/command look up, and development and review by master MCSDs and MCTs. The interactive CD-ROM includes tests that link to the electronic text of the book.

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