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Critical Issues in Policing

Contemporary Readings, Fifth Edition

 

Roger G. Dunham and Geoffrey P. Alpert

 

Highly regarded for its authoritative coverage in four previous editions, this collection of articles written by experts and specialists examines the complex elements of policing within the broader social context. The twenty-nine articles in the extensively revised fifth edition include twelve that are entirely new and ten that have been updated. This timely anthology provides access to crucial information about how policing has evolved to be what it is today; what makes policing and the police organization unique; public conceptions about the police; and the effects of current trends in training, community-oriented policing, and use of high-tech information systems. In-depth coverage offers readers the chance to gain a vivid understanding of the issues confronting law enforcement personnel, policy makers, and the public.

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Critical Issues in Policing, 5/E
 

 

$36.95 list, 570 pages

10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-352-7

13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-352-2

© 2005

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“This remains the best and most comprehensive police reader.”  — James J. Fyfe, New York City Police Department

 

“I thoroughly enjoyed this text. It is comprehensive and fairly addresses the issues most important to policing today.”  — Marilyn Simon, University of Cincinnati

 

“An excellent text covering a myriad of important issues in policing. As a former lieutenant, now a full-time C.J. instructor, I have found this to be the best text I have used in fourteen years of teaching.”  — Daniel Kearney, Henry Ford Community College

 

“For an overview course in American policing, this reader covers important topics with an astutely selected set of articles.”  — Peter W. Phillips, University of Texas, Tyler

 

“I have used earlier editions of this book. The book was excellent and well received by students. This Fifth Edition continues the excellent choice of content and is presented in a very readable fashion.”  — Maurice A. Cawn, Guilford College


 Table of Contents

 

1. The Foundation of the Police Role in Society

Section I. INTRODUCTION AND HISTORIC OVERVIEW

2. The Development of the American Police: An Historical Overview (Craig D. Uchida)

3. Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2000, and LEMAS, 2000—Highlights (Brian A. Reaves and Matthew J. Hickman)

Section II. SELECTION, TRAINING, AND SOCIALIZATION

4. Law Enforcement Training: Changes and Challenges (Allison T. Chappell, Lonn Lanza-Kaduce, and Daryl H. Johnston)

5. Police Discretionary Behavior: A Study of Style (Laure Weber Brooks)

6. Policing and Reflection (Peter K. Manning)

7. Police Response to Persons with Mental Illness (Wesley G. Jennings and Edward J. Hudak)

Section III. MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION

8. How Police Supervisory Styles Influence Patrol Officer Behavior (Robin Shepard Engel)

9. Traditional and Innovative Police Responses to Domestic Violence (Eve S. Buzawa and Carl G. Buzawa)

10. Information Technology Innovations in Policing (Meghan S. Stroshine)

11. Introduction to Early Intervention Systems (Samuel Walker)

12. Compstat: An Analysis of an Emerging Police Managerial Paradigm (William F. Walsh)

13. Geographic Information Systems: Applications for Police (William V. Pelfrey, Jr.)

Section IV. POLICE DEVIANCE: Corruption and Controls

14. Breeding Deviant Conformity: The Ideology and Culture of Police (Victor E. Kappeler, Richard D. Sluder, and Geoffrey P. Alpert)

15. Addressing Police Misconduct: The Role of Citizen Complaints (Jeff Rojek, Scott H. Decker, and Allen E. Wagner)

16. Ethics and Law Enforcement (Joycelyn M. Pollock)

17. Law Enforcement Agency Responses to Racially Biased Policing and the Perceptions of Its Practice (Lorie Fridell and Michael Scott)

Section V. MINORITIES IN POLICING

18. An Afrocentric Perspective on Policing (Christopher Cooper)

19. Women Officers on the Move (Susan E. Martin)

Section VI. COMMUNITY-BASED POLICING

20. Broken Windows (James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling)

21. "Broken Windows" and Fractured History: The Use and Misuse of History in Recent Police Patrol Analysis (Samuel Walker)
22. Community Policing: Elements and Effects (Gary W. Cordner)

23. Problem-Oriented Policing (John D. Reitzel, Nicole Leeper Piquero, and Alex R. Piquero)

Section VII. USE OF FORCE

24. The Split-Second Syndrome and Other Determinants of Police Violence (James J. Fyfe)

25. What We Know about Police Use of Force (Kenneth Adams)
26. Police Use of Deadly Force: How Courts and Policy-Makers Have Misapplied Tennessee v. Garner (Michael R. Smith)

27. Police Operational Management: Rethinking the Legal Shell Game (William C. Smith)

Section VIII. HAZARDS OF POLICE WORK

28. Gender and Police Stress: The Convergent and Divergent Impact of Work Environment, Work-Family Conflict, and Stress Coping Mechanisms of Female and Male Police Officers (Ni He, Jihong Zhao, and Carol A. Archbold)

29. Toward an Understanding of the Physical Hazards of Police Work (Steven G. Brandl and Meghan S. Stroshine)