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The Police in America: An Introduction - Softcover

Walker, Samuel; Katz, Charles M.

 
9780073527925: The Police in America: An Introduction
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0073527920 ISBN 13: 9780073527925
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The Police in America 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. Using timely articles and excerpts, the authors take readers beyond the headlines and statistics to present a comprehensive and contemporary overview of what it means to be a police officer.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0073527920
ISBN 13 
9780073527925
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
6
Anzahl der Seiten
568
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