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An Introduction to Policing

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: West/Wadsworth Publishing Co. 1999ISBN:
  • 0534546757
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.20973 D43 1999
Contents:
POLICE HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION. 1. Police History. 2. Organizing Public and Private Policing in the United States. 3. Organizing the Police Department. PART II. THE PERSONAL SIDE OF POLICING. 4. Becoming a Police Officer. 5. The Police Role and Police Discretion. 6. The Police Culture, Personality, and Stress. PART III. POLICE OPERATIONS. 7. Police Operations: The Traditional Approach. 8. Police Operations: The New Approach. 9. Police and the Community. 10. Community Policing: The Debate Continues. 11. Police and the Law. PART IV. CRITICAL ISSUES IN POLICING. 12. Police Ethics and Police Deviance. 13. Women and Minorities in Policing. 14. Technology in Policing. 15. Special Problems in Policing.
Summary: This text on policing presents a balance between the practical and theoretical. Dempsey brings his 25 years of experience (as an officer in the New York Police Department) together with contemporary research to illustrate both the formal and the real workings of the policing system.
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Books Books NORSU Dumaguete (Main Campus II) Circulation Section 363.20973 D43 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c1 Available NORSU000006557

Includes bibliographical references and index.

POLICE HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION. 1. Police History. 2. Organizing Public and Private Policing in the United States. 3. Organizing the Police Department. PART II. THE PERSONAL SIDE OF POLICING. 4. Becoming a Police Officer. 5. The Police Role and Police Discretion. 6. The Police Culture, Personality, and Stress. PART III. POLICE OPERATIONS. 7. Police Operations: The Traditional Approach. 8. Police Operations: The New Approach. 9. Police and the Community. 10. Community Policing: The Debate Continues. 11. Police and the Law. PART IV. CRITICAL ISSUES IN POLICING. 12. Police Ethics and Police Deviance. 13. Women and Minorities in Policing. 14. Technology in Policing. 15. Special Problems in Policing.

This text on policing presents a balance between the practical and theoretical. Dempsey brings his 25 years of experience (as an officer in the New York Police Department) together with contemporary research to illustrate both the formal and the real workings of the policing system.

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