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Title:
An introduction to policing / John S. Dempsey, Linda S. Forst.
Author:
Dempsey, John S.

Forst, Linda S.
Publication Information:
Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2008.
Call Number:
HV8138 .D37 2008
Abstract:
Designed to give a general overview of policing in our society, with a new chapter added to reflect the increasing emphasis on policing and homeland security.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0801/2006935543.html
Edition:
4th ed.
ISBN:
9780495095453
Physical Description:
xviii, 556 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Police history and organization -- Police history -- Early police -- English policing : our English heritage -- Early history -- Seventeenth century and thief-takers -- Henry Fielding -- Peel's police : the Metropolitan Police for London -- American policing : the colonial experience -- The north : the watch -- The south : slave patrols -- American policing : eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The urban experience -- The southern experience -- The frontier experience -- American policing : twentieth century -- Policing from 1900 to 1969 -- Policing in the 1960s and 1970s -- Policing in the 1980s and 1990s -- Policing in the 2000s -- Organizing public and private security in the United States -- The U.S. public and private security industry -- Local law enforcement -- Metropolitan law enforcement -- County law enforcement -- Rural and small-town law enforcement -- Indian country and tribal law enforcement -- State law enforcement -- Federal law enforcement -- Department of Justice -- Department of the Treasury -- Department of Homeland Security (DHS) -- Department of the Interior -- Department of Defense -- U.S. Postal Service -- Other federal enforcement agencies -- Joint federal and local task force approach to law enforcement -- International police -- Private security -- What is private security -- Size and scope of the private security industry -- Why do we have private security? -- Private security standards today -- Professionalization of private security -- College education and private security -- Homeland security and private security -- Private investigations -- Private employment of public police.

Organizing the police department -- Organizing the department -- managerial concepts -- Division of labor -- Managerial definitions -- Managers/supervisors or leaders? -- Traditional organizational model and structure -- Chain of command (hierarchy of authority) -- Span of control -- Delegation of responsibility and authority -- Unit of command -- Rules, regulations, and discipline -- Alternative organizational models and structures -- Organizing by personnel -- The Civil Service System -- Sworn and nonsworn (civilian) personnel -- Rank structure -- Other personnel -- Some personnel issues -- Organizing by area -- Beats -- Precincts/districts/stations -- Organizing by times -- The three-tour system -- Tour conditions -- Steady (fixed) tours -- Organizing by function or purpose -- Line and staff (support) functions -- Police department units.

The personal side of policing -- Becoming a police officer -- Finding information on jobs and policing -- Standards in police selection -- Physical requirements -- Smoking -- Age requirements -- Education requirements -- Prior drug use -- Criminal records restrictions -- The recruitment process -- The job analysis -- The selection process -- Characteristic of good police officers -- Written entrance examinations -- Physical agility test -- Polygraph examination -- Oral interview -- Background investigation -- Psychological appraisal -- Medical examination -- The police training process -- Recruit training -- The police academy -- Field training -- Firearms training -- In-service, management, and specialized training -- Training for the police corps --- Community policing training -- Probationary period -- The police role and police discretion -- The police role -- Crime-fighting role -- Order maintenance role -- Ambiguity of the police role -- The role of the police in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 -- Goals and objectives of policing -- Primary goals and objectives -- Secondary goals and objectives -- Police operational styles -- Police discretion -- What is discretion? -- How is discretion exercised? -- Why is discretion exercised? -- What factors influence discretion? -- How can discretion be controlled? -- Police discretion and police shootings and the use of deadly force -- Police use of force -- Number of citizens shot by the police -- Do police discriminate with their trigger fingers? -- Departure from the "fleeing felon" rule -- Firearms training -- Less-than-lethal force.

Police culture, personality, and stress -- The police culture and subculture -- The blue wall of silence -- The police personality -- What is the police personality? -- Are they born like that, or is it the job? -- Police cynicism -- The Dirty Harry problem -- Police stress -- What is stress? -- Nature of stress in policing -- Factors causing stress in policing -- Effects of stress on police officers -- Stress and police families -- Police departments dealing with stress -- Police suicide -- Police danger -- Officers killed in the line of duty -- Officers assaulted in the line of duty -- Police and AIDS -- Minorities in policing -- Discrimination in policing -- Discrimination against women -- Discrimination against African Americans -- How did women and minorities strive for equality? -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 -- The Civil Rights Act of 1991 -- Federal courts and job discrimination -- Affirmative Action programs -- White male backlash -- Can minorities do the job? -- Academic studies -- Minorities in policing today -- Female representation -- African American representation -- Hispanic representation -- Asian representation -- Muslim representation -- Gay and lesbian representation -- Problems persist for minorities in policing -- Problems for women -- Problems for African Americans -- Problems for other minorities.

Police ethics and police deviance -- Ethics and the police -- The dilemma of law versus order -- Review of the police -- Police corruption -- Corruption makes good books and films -- Examples of police corruption -- Reasons for police corruption -- Types and forms of corruption -- Noble cause corruption -- Effects of police corruption -- Other police misconduct -- Drug-related corruption -- Sleeping on duty -- Police deception -- Sex-related corruption -- Domestic violence in police families -- Biased-based policing -- Police brutality -- Response to police corruption -- Investigations -- Discipline and termination -- Preventative administrative actions -- Citizen oversight -- Police civil and criminal liability -- State liability -- Federal liability -- Reasons for suing police officers -- Effects of lawsuits on police department and officers -- The emotional toll.

Police operations -- Police operations -- Traditional methods of police work -- Police patrol operations -- Activities of the patrol officer -- The legacy of O.W. Wilson -- Evaluating the effectiveness of police work -- Random routine patrol : the Kansas City study -- The Kansas City study in brief -- Results of the Kansas City study -- Critiques of the Kansas City study -- Value of the Kansas City study -- Rapid response to citizens' 911 calls -- Early studies of rapid response -- Later studies of rapid response -- Academic studies of the police patrol function -- From the foot beat to the patrol car -- Return to foot patrol -- Patrol innovations : working smarter -- Evidence-based policing -- Modern response to citizens' 911 calls -- Directed patrol -- Split-force patrol -- Differential response to calls for service and the 911 system -- Allocation of resources -- Personnel -- Vehicles -- Alternative strategies -- Uniformed tactical operations -- Decoy vehicles -- Alternative vehicle deployment -- Police traffic operations -- Police automobile pursuits -- Studies involving police pursuits -- The evolution of pursuits -- Efforts against drunk drivers -- Fighting aggressive driving -- Other police operational units -- SWAT teams -- Emergency service units -- K-9 units.

Investigations -- Retroactive investigation of past crimes by detectives -- Detective operations -- What detectives do -- The detective mystique -- Alternatives to retroactive investigation of past crimes by detectives -- Improved investigation of past crimes -- Managing criminal investigations (MCI) -- Mentoring and training -- Crime analysis and information management -- Crime analysis -- Information management -- Multi-agency investigative task forces -- Repeat offender programs (ROPs) -- Internet registries -- Global Positioning System (GPS) technology -- Closed-circuit TV -- Cold-case squads -- New Proactive tactics -- Decoy operations -- Stakeout operations -- Sting operations -- Civil liability and code enforcement teams -- Undercover operations -- Police undercover investigations -- Federal undercover investigations -- Private security underground investigations -- Drug undercover investigations -- Entrapment -- Police and the community -- The need for proper police community relationships -- Human relations, public relations, community relations -- Public opinion and the police -- Police and minority communities -- Multiculturalism -- African American s-- Hispanic Americans -- Asian Americans -- Native Americans -- Arab Americans and Muslims -- Jews -- Women -- Gays and lesbians -- New immigrants -- The physically challenged -- Police and special populations -- The aging population -- Young people -- Crime victims -- Victims of domestic violence -- The mentally ill -- The homeless -- Community crime prevention programs -- Neighborhood watch programs -- National Night Out -- Citizen patrols -- Citizen volunteer programs -- Home security surveys and operation identification -- Police storefront stations or ministations -- Crime Stoppers -- Mass media campaigns -- Chaplain programs -- Citizen police academies -- Other police-sponsored crime prevention programs -- Police and business cooperation ---

Community policing : the debate continues -- Corporate strategies for policing -- The philosophy of community policing and problem-solving policing -- Community policing -- Problem-solving policing -- Successful examples of problem-oriented policing -- Community policing today -- Resident officer programs : the ultimate in community policing? -- The federal government and community policing -- The crime bill -- Office of community oriented policing services (COPS) -- Community policing consortium -- Some accomplishments of community policing -- Not all agree with community policing -- Homeland security and the future of community policing -- Police and the law -- Crime in the United States -- How much do we measure crime? -- How much crime occurs in the United States? -- Arrests in the United States -- The police and the U.S. Constitution.

Critical issues in policing -- Computers, technology, and criminalistics in policing -- Computers in policing -- Computer-aided dispatch (CAD) -- Automated databases -- Automated crime analysis (crime mapping) -- Computer-aided investigation (computerized case management) -- Computer-assisted instruction -- Administrative uses of computers -- Computer networks and the Internet -- Fingerprint technology -- Basic categories of fingerprints -- Automated fingerprint identification systems -- Automated palm print technology -- Less-than-lethal weapons -- Chemical irritant sprays -- The taser and other stun devices -- Safety and effectiveness of less-than-lethal weapons -- Surveillance technology -- Surveillance vans -- Vehicle tracking systems -- Night vision devices -- Global positioning systems -- Surveillance aircraft -- Electronic video surveillance -- Advanced photographic techniques -- Digital photography -- Mug shot imaging -- Age-progression photographs -- Composite sketches -- Modern forensics or criminalistics -- The CSI effect -- The modern crime lab -- Crime lab accreditation -- DNA profiling/genetic fingerprinting -- The science of DNA -- History of DNA in the U.S. courts -- Current technology -- DNA databases -- Other current DNA issues -- Biometric identification -- Videotaping -- Robotics -- Robotics -- Concerns about technology and civil liberties.

Homeland Security -- Terrorism -- International terrorism -- Domestic terrorism -- Methods of investigating terrorism -- Proactive methods -- Reactive methods -- Post-September 11, 2001, response to terrorism and homeland defense -- Federal law enforcement efforts for homeland security -- Department of Homeland Security -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -- Other federal agencies -- State and local law enforcement efforts for homeland security -- Private security efforts for homeland security -- 9/11 Commission's review of efforts for homeland security -- Security versus civil liberties -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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