Policing America : Methods, Issues, Challenges - Hardcover

Peak, Kenneth J.

9780130940995: Policing America : Methods, Issues, Challenges

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130940992 ISBN 13: 9780130940995

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Designed to put readers “inside” the police officer's uniform, this personally-involving, comprehensive, and timely introduction to police work provides a “real-world” flavor not found in most policing books. Written in an exceptionally reader-friendly open and frank style, it blends the real and the ideal—reflecting the author's more than 30 years' experience as a police administrator and academic. Features boxed articles from Law Enforcement News, and “Practitioner's Perspectives” with short essays written by selected individuals who have expertise in particular areas of policing. Policing Levels, Roles, and Functions. Police Subculture: The Making of a Cop. Organization and Administration. On Patrol: Personnel, Methods, Functions. Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving. Criminal Investigation. Extraordinary Problems and Methods. Police and the Rule of Law. Accountability: Ethics, Force and Corruption, Discipline. Civil Liability. Issues and Trends. Comparative Perspectives. Technology Review. Challenges of the Future. For those involved/interested in General Policing, Community Policing, and Policing Issues.

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From the Publisher:

This text conveys to criminal justice students the methods and issues, personality and problems, and attitudes and beliefs of those persons who inforce federal, state, and local laws.

From the Back Cover:

Author Kenneth Peak feels that this, the fourth edition of Policing America, is by far "bigger and better" than its three predecessors, providing a comprehensive view of the largely misunderstood, often obscure world of policing.

New to This Edition:

New chapter on community oriented policing and problem solving
Discussions of terrorism (and the practices and technology being developed to combat it)
Less-than-lethal weapons
Hate crimes
Stalking
Updated court decisions

The fourth edition continues to provide in-depth coverage of such topics as patrol, the police subculture, accountability, civil liability, extraordinary problems and practices, the rule of law, investigations, policing in selected foreign venues, and policing in the future.

The author brings more than 30 years of both scholarly and policing backgrounds to this effort; as a result, the chapters contain a "real world" flavor not found in most policing textbooks. Disseminated throughout the book are several "Practitioner's Perspectives"—short essays written by selected individuals who have expertise in particular areas of policing.

From its introduction, written by Darrel W Stephens, police chief of Charlotte, North Carolina, through the final chapter, the reader is provided with a penetrating view of what is certainly one of the most difficult and challenging occupations in America.

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