NCJ Number
183763
Date Published
1999
Length
475 pages
Annotation
This is a textbook for students of introductory law enforcement, police in society, police operations and police patrol and administration courses taught at junior colleges and universities.
Abstract
The book is divided into 18 chapters: (1) Social Control and Social Order; (2) The Historical Evolution of Policing; (3) The Organization of American Law Enforcement Agencies; (4) Police Patrol and Traffic Functions; (5) Investigations, Juveniles, and Special Units; (6) Criminal Investigation; (7) Interviews and Interrogations; (8) Constitutional Regulations and the Police: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Criminals; (9) Criminalistics and the Police; (10) Computers and the Police; (11) Police Discretion; (12) Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement; (13) Police Subculture; (14) Police Ethics; (15) Police Deviance and Corruption; (16) Hazards of Policing: Danger, Stress, and AIDS; (17) Police Professionalism; and (18) The Future: Education, Training, and Privatization in Policing. Each chapter includes chapter objectives, key terms, summary, references and questions for review. References, tables, figures, index