Police and Society [Paperback]

Police & Society,Ninth Edition, offers an in-depth and analytical look at policing, from police behavior and organization to operations and historical perspectives. Focusing on the relationship between the police and the community and how it has changed throughout the years, the authors explore the most important theoretical foundations and incisive research on contemporary policing and show how that research is put into practice. The text is enhanced by extensive pedagogy and a unique chapter on higher education and policing.PART I: Policing Foundations1: Police in a Democracy2: Police History3: Legal Issues4: Police StrategiesPART II: Police Administration5: Police Organization and Management6: Selection and Development7: Field Operations: Foundations8: Innovations in Field OperationsPART III: Police Behavior9: Behavior and Misconduct10: Force and Coercion11: Accountability and EthicsPART IV: Contemporary Issues12: Diversity and Inclusion13: Stress and Officer Safety14: Higher Education15: Emerging IssuesKenneth Novakis Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.Gary Cordneris Academic Director in the Education & Training Section, Baltimore Police Department.Brad Smithis Professor and Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Wayne State University. Police and Societyis well established, well written, accessible to students, and covers many of the issues I find important in this course. The content is current and focused on the legal and organizational issues that structure and constrain the challenges we see in policing. It is probably as good as any text I've used in twenty-plus years of teaching this class. I've looked at other texts, but none were better suited to my approach. --Joseph Schafer,Saint Louis University

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