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Title:
The Oxford handbook of police and policing / edited by Michael D. Reisig and Robert J. Kane.
Author:
Reisig, Michael Dean, 1968-

Kane, Robert J.
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Call Number:
HV8139 .O94 2014
Abstract:
The police are perhaps the most visible representation of government. They are charged with what has been characterized as an "impossible" mandate -- control and prevent crime, keep the peace, provide public services -- and do so within the constraints of democratic principles. The police are trusted to use deadly force when it is called for and are allowed access to our homes in cases of emergency. In fact, police departments are one of the few government agencies that can be mobilized by a simple phone call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They are ubiquitous within our society, but their actions are often not well understood. The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing brings together research on the development and operation of policing in the United States and elsewhere. Accomplished policing researchers Michael D. Reisig and Robert J. Kane have assembled a cast of renowned scholars to provide an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the institution of policing. The different sections of the Handbook explore policing contexts, strategies, authority, and issues relating to race and ethnicity. The Handbook also includes reviews of the research methodologies used by policing scholars and considerations of the factors that will ultimately shape the future of policing, thus providing persuasive insights into why and how policing has developed, what it is today, and what to expect in the future. Aimed at a wide audience of scholars and students in criminology and criminal justice, as well as police professionals, the Handbook serves as the definitive resource for information on this important institution. --Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780199843886
Series:
Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice

Oxford handbooks in criminology and criminal justice.
Physical Description:
xi, 671 pages ; 26 cm.
Contents:
A recent history of the police / Policing urban drug markets / The politics of policing / Police organizations and the iron cage of rationality / Problem-oriented policing : principles, practice, and crime prevention / Order maintenance policing / Community policing / Zero tolerance and policing / Policing vulnerable populations / Police authority in liberal-consent democracies : a case for anti-authoritarian cops / Police legitimacy / Police coercion / Restraint and technology : exploring police use of the TASER through the diffusion of innovation framework / Police misconduct / Police race relations / Race, place, and policing the inner-city / Racial profiling / Illegal immigration and local policing / Police administrative records as social science data / Using community surveys to study policing / Systematic social observation of the police / Using experimental designs to study police interventions / Ethnographies of policing / Police legitimacy in action : lessons for theory and policy / Private policing in public spaces / The policing of space : new realities, old dilemmas / Policing in central and eastern Europe : past, present, and future prospects / Local police and the "war" on terrorism
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