Policing America: Methods, Issues, Challenges
Language: English
Published by Pearson Education (US), 2005
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Based on the author's 35 years of experience as a scholar and police practitioner, Policing America: Methods, Issues, Challenges 5e provides a comprehensive and realistic introduction to one of the most difficult and challenging occupations in America. The text delivers a "real world" look at policing, and show students what it is like to wear a police uniform in America today.
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- Title
- Policing America: Methods, Issues, Challenges
- Author
- Ken J Peak
- Publisher
- Pearson Education (US)
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 013118864X
- ISBN 13
- 9780131188648
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
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 idealreflecting 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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