The Police In America: An Introduction - Couverture souple

Walker, Samuel; Katz, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0072944781 ISBN 13 : 9780072944785

Editeur : McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2004

Synopsis

Offers undergraduate students an overview of who the police are and what they do, and problems related to policing. Divided into four parts, this title begins with an analysis of the foundation of law enforcement, including the underlying purpose of police in society, and the history of American police.

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 Higher Education
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0072944781
• ISBN 13: 9780072944785
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 512
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible