The Police in America With Powerweb: An Introduction - Couverture souple

Walker, Samuel; Katz, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0072532408 ISBN 13 : 9780072532401

Editeur : McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., 2001

Synopsis

"The Police in America: An Introduction" provides a comprehensive introduction to the foundations of policing in the United States today. Descriptive and analytical, the text is designed to offer undergraduate students a balanced and up-to-date overview of who the police are and what they do, the problems they face, and the many reforms and innovations that have taken place in policing. The book is designed primarily for undergraduate students enrolled in their first police or law enforcement course such as Introduction to Policing, Police and Society, Police Function, or Law Enforcement Systems.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Samuel Walker is a professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He teaches an undergraduate course, Police and Society, for which this book is designed, a graduate course on the administration of public justice, and other courses. He is the author of nine books on the police, the history of criminal justice, criminal justice policy, and civil liberties. His primary research interests involve citizen complaints against the police and citizen complaint review procedures. In 1998 he was awarded the Bruce Smith Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). Charles M. Katz is an assistant professor in the Administration of Justice Department at Arizona State University West. He currently serves as the director of the department's graduate program. Katz earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1997. He is currently involved in two studies examining responses to community gang problems. He is the project director for a National Institute of Justice study of the police response to gangs in four sites: Phoenix, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Inglewood (California). In addition, he is working with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the City of Mesa (Arizona) to evaluate the effectiveness of the Mesa Gang Intervention Project. His publications include numerous articles on community policing, policing gangs, and drugs and crime.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0072532408
• ISBN 13: 9780072532401
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible