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The Police in America, Classic and
Contemporary Readings
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This unique reader
provides students with a scholarly foundation for understanding police
research, theory and practice.
The Police in America
also includes classic readings and more contemporary writings which directly
relate to and build upon the classical works.
This unique combination
of classic and contemporary readings helps bring police literature alive for
today's students, and helps them to recognize the relevance of this
literature to contemporary issues and problems in policing. |
Features:
- The unparalleled collection of contributors to
this text includes George L. Kelling, James J. Fyfe, Lawrence W. Sherman,
Herman Goldstein, Robert E. Worden, among others.
- Dividing policing literature into three
sections, the authors begin each section with an "Introduction" to assist
readers in developing an understanding of the context and the main themes of
the articles included in that section. Each section concludes with several
"Questions for Discussion and Review." These questions stimulate further
discussion and thought about the articles included in that section.
- Section I, "Police History and Role," contains
writings that describe and explain the nature of the police function in
American society from a historical, multicultural and political economic
perspective.
- Section II, "Police Discretion," includes
works that have examined the causes and consequences of police discretionary
decisions.
- Section III, "Police Strategies," presents
articles on the structure, implementation, and effectiveness of the most
influential police operational strategies, as well as their impact on shaping
policing in the United States.
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