NCJ Number
151207
Editor(s)
K R E McCormick,
L A Visano
Date Published
1992
Length
718 pages
Annotation
This compilation of articles on policing in Canada presents the perspectives of various disciplines, including history, sociology, criminology, penology, and race relations.
Abstract
The articles are intended to provide the reader with the substantive foundation needed to conduct a critical exploration of current problems that face police. Three papers provide an overview of policing that includes discussions of trends in the sociology of police work; democratic order and the rule of law; and a review of some themes in the history of urban crime, police, and riots. Four papers examine various aspects of the history of policing, followed by three papers on the roles, domains, and powers of police. The latter address the police as reproducers of order, a reconsideration of the police role, and police regulation of urban order. Four papers on police discretion, styles, and encounters discuss the management of violence by patrol officers, the policing of political activities, deference exchange in police-citizen encounters, and the politics of negligence in the policing of serial murder. Two papers on deviance and subcultures examine mechanisms of coordinating police action and present a case study of selection, training, and advancement procedures in a Canadian metropolitan police force. Papers in the remaining sections of the book address accountability and control of police, how police have been used to protect profit in the private sector, and prospects and paradoxes for policing. Chapter references and notes