Policing and the Law
Published on 8. July 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-13-028435-8 (ISBN)
Description
For courses in Introduction to Policing, Legal Aspects of Policing, Police Administration, and Police and Society.
This text provides in-depth and extensive coverage of legal issues affecting the police, discussing both operational and administrative issues in policing as they are enhanced or constrained by the system of laws in America. It contains a collection of ten essays in three topical areas: legal aspects of police-citizen encounters, limitations on police work, and the law and police administration. Contributors to the book include both practitioners and academicians, as well as those who work or have worked in both fields.
This text provides in-depth and extensive coverage of legal issues affecting the police, discussing both operational and administrative issues in policing as they are enhanced or constrained by the system of laws in America. It contains a collection of ten essays in three topical areas: legal aspects of police-citizen encounters, limitations on police work, and the law and police administration. Contributors to the book include both practitioners and academicians, as well as those who work or have worked in both fields.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-028435-8 (9780130284358)
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Person
Jeffery T. Walker is a Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where he has taught since 1990. Walker also serves as the Research Director for the Arkansas Statistical Analysis Center, which directs research and data gathering in criminal justice in Arkansas. He has served as President of both the Arkansas Criminal Justice Association and the Southwestern Association of Criminal Justice. He currently serves as the Secretary of ACJS. Editorial experience includes service as Editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Editor of Critical Criminology, and as Editor of ACJS Today. His two primary areas of research are criminology and law enforcement. In addition, he has researched and written on computers in criminal justice, distance education, legal issues concerning the police, and gang behavior. Previous publications include articles in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Journal of Gang Research and the books Leading Cases in Law Enforcement and Statistics in Criminal Justice: Analysis and Interpretation.
Content
I. OPERATIONAL ISSUES AND THE LAW.
1. Laws of the State and the State of Law: The Relationship between Police and Law, Jeffrey T. Walker.
2. Crime and the Supreme Court: The Impact of the War on Drugs on Judicial Review of Police Investigatory Practice, Craig Hemmens.
3. Supreme Court Puts Up Roadblocks to Drug Enforcement, James W. Golden and Amy C. VanHouten.
4. Civil Liabilities and Arrest Decisions, Dennis J. Stevens.
5. That Dog Will Hunt: Canine Assisted Search and Seizure, James W. Golden and Jeffrey T. Walker.
6. Policing the Internet: Legal Issues on the Information Super Highway, Robert W. Taylor and Deanne Morgan.
II. ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES AND THE LAW.
7.Policy Agency Responses to Changes in the Legal Environment, Michael Buerger.
8. Privacy Rights of Police Officers: Dimensions of Employer Regulations, William P. Bloss.
9. Affirmative Action and Police Selection: Managing Legal Boundaries and Psychometric Limits, Larry K. Gaines and Pamela J. Schram.
10. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (AHEA) and Police Agencies, Joseph E. Pascarella.
11. Policing and the Law: More Than Just a Question of Arrest, Mark L. Dantzker.
Author Biographies.
1. Laws of the State and the State of Law: The Relationship between Police and Law, Jeffrey T. Walker.
2. Crime and the Supreme Court: The Impact of the War on Drugs on Judicial Review of Police Investigatory Practice, Craig Hemmens.
3. Supreme Court Puts Up Roadblocks to Drug Enforcement, James W. Golden and Amy C. VanHouten.
4. Civil Liabilities and Arrest Decisions, Dennis J. Stevens.
5. That Dog Will Hunt: Canine Assisted Search and Seizure, James W. Golden and Jeffrey T. Walker.
6. Policing the Internet: Legal Issues on the Information Super Highway, Robert W. Taylor and Deanne Morgan.
II. ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES AND THE LAW.
7.Policy Agency Responses to Changes in the Legal Environment, Michael Buerger.
8. Privacy Rights of Police Officers: Dimensions of Employer Regulations, William P. Bloss.
9. Affirmative Action and Police Selection: Managing Legal Boundaries and Psychometric Limits, Larry K. Gaines and Pamela J. Schram.
10. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (AHEA) and Police Agencies, Joseph E. Pascarella.
11. Policing and the Law: More Than Just a Question of Arrest, Mark L. Dantzker.
Author Biographies.