Policing America
6th Edition
Published on 12. March 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-13-159803-4 (ISBN)
Description
For courses in Introduction to Policing or General Policing or as a supplemental text for Community Policing or Police Administration.
Taking a new direction and emphasis, this edition of Policing America offers a problem-solving approach and emphasizes what is actually working in the field. Based on the author's over thirty five years of experience, the book offers complete coverage of traditional policing topics, a concise view of the reorganized federal law enforcement system, and coverage of topics such as homeland security, community policing, investigations, accountability, patrol and technologies. This edition features two new problem-solving chapters, an new problem-solving appendix and over thirty case-study exhibits that reinforce what works to attack such problems as terrorism, gangs, and crimes involving drugs, hate, and youth.
Taking a new direction and emphasis, this edition of Policing America offers a problem-solving approach and emphasizes what is actually working in the field. Based on the author's over thirty five years of experience, the book offers complete coverage of traditional policing topics, a concise view of the reorganized federal law enforcement system, and coverage of topics such as homeland security, community policing, investigations, accountability, patrol and technologies. This edition features two new problem-solving chapters, an new problem-solving appendix and over thirty case-study exhibits that reinforce what works to attack such problems as terrorism, gangs, and crimes involving drugs, hate, and youth.
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Edition
6th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Weight
1095 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-159803-4 (9780131598034)
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7th Edition
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Person
Ken Peak's career as a practitioner and educator in law enforcement and criminal justice spans more than 35 years - including nearly eight years as a police chief executive and beat officer. He is currently a full professor and former chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Reno, where he was named teacher of the year by the university's honor society. He entered municipal policing in Kansas in 1970 and subsequently held positions as a nine-county criminal justice planner in Kansas; director of a four-state Technical Assistance Institute for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration; director of university police at Pittsburg State University in Kansas; acting director of public safety at the University of Nevada, Reno; and assistant professor of criminal justice at Wichita State University.
He has authored or coauthored twenty other textbooks, including Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management (5th ed.); Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices (5th ed., with Ronald W. Glensor); Police Supervision and Management: In an Era of Community Policing (2nd ed., with Ronald W. Glensor and Larry K. Gaines); Women in Law Enforcement Careers: A Guide for Preparing and Succeeding with V. Lord); and Policing Communities: Understanding Crime and Solving Problems (an anthology, with R. Glensor and M. Correia). He has also published two historical books- KansasTemperance: Much Adoabout Booze, 1870 - 1920 (with P. Peak) and Kansas Bootleggers (with Patrick G. O'Brien)-as well as more than fifty journal articles and book chapters.
He has served as chairman of the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and as president of the Western and Pacific Association of Criminal Justice Educators. His teaching interests include policing, administration, victimology, and comparative justice systems. He received two gubernatorial appointments to statewide criminal justice committees while residing in Kansas and holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas.
He has authored or coauthored twenty other textbooks, including Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management (5th ed.); Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices (5th ed., with Ronald W. Glensor); Police Supervision and Management: In an Era of Community Policing (2nd ed., with Ronald W. Glensor and Larry K. Gaines); Women in Law Enforcement Careers: A Guide for Preparing and Succeeding with V. Lord); and Policing Communities: Understanding Crime and Solving Problems (an anthology, with R. Glensor and M. Correia). He has also published two historical books- KansasTemperance: Much Adoabout Booze, 1870 - 1920 (with P. Peak) and Kansas Bootleggers (with Patrick G. O'Brien)-as well as more than fifty journal articles and book chapters.
He has served as chairman of the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and as president of the Western and Pacific Association of Criminal Justice Educators. His teaching interests include policing, administration, victimology, and comparative justice systems. He received two gubernatorial appointments to statewide criminal justice committees while residing in Kansas and holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas.
Content
Part I Foundations: Development of Law Enforcement Organizations and Police Officers
1 Historical Development: Coming to America
2 Federal and State Agencies: Protecting their Borders
3 Police in Society: Organization and Administration of Municipal and County Agencies
4 From Citizen to Officer: Preparing For the Street
Part II Policing As Work: Patrolling, Problem Solving, Detecting
5 On Patrol: Methods and Menaces
6 Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving: Confronting Crime and Disorder
7 Criminal Investigation: The Science of Detection
Part III Constraints: Rule of Law, Accountability, and Liability
8 Rule of Law: Expounding the Constitution
9 Accountability: Ethics, Use of Force, Corruption, and Discipline
10 Civil Liability: Failing the Public Trust
Part IV Special Problems, Challenges, and Populations
11 Addressing Terrorism, Gangs, and Drugs
12 Crimes Involving Illegal Immigrants, the Mob, Hate, and Youth
13 Trends and Issues: Labor Relations, Women and Minorities, Stress, and Higher Education
Part V Other Challenges Today and Beyond
14 Technology Review: Tools for the Tasks
15 Focus on the Future
Appendix I: "What Works": Police Problem-solving Approaches to Community Problems
Appendix II: Career Information
1 Historical Development: Coming to America
2 Federal and State Agencies: Protecting their Borders
3 Police in Society: Organization and Administration of Municipal and County Agencies
4 From Citizen to Officer: Preparing For the Street
Part II Policing As Work: Patrolling, Problem Solving, Detecting
5 On Patrol: Methods and Menaces
6 Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving: Confronting Crime and Disorder
7 Criminal Investigation: The Science of Detection
Part III Constraints: Rule of Law, Accountability, and Liability
8 Rule of Law: Expounding the Constitution
9 Accountability: Ethics, Use of Force, Corruption, and Discipline
10 Civil Liability: Failing the Public Trust
Part IV Special Problems, Challenges, and Populations
11 Addressing Terrorism, Gangs, and Drugs
12 Crimes Involving Illegal Immigrants, the Mob, Hate, and Youth
13 Trends and Issues: Labor Relations, Women and Minorities, Stress, and Higher Education
Part V Other Challenges Today and Beyond
14 Technology Review: Tools for the Tasks
15 Focus on the Future
Appendix I: "What Works": Police Problem-solving Approaches to Community Problems
Appendix II: Career Information