Looks at recent innovations in the police departments and evaluates the effectiveness of police-community cooperation, command decentralization, and increased foot patrols

New Blue Line

Politics & Social Sciences

Skolnick, Jerome

Social Sciences

Free Press

Uses the now-famous Rodney King videotape to introduce an historical analysis of police violence, its role in police work, its causes and significance, and its incidence in law enforcement today

Above the Law

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Family in Transition

Skolnick, Arlene

Parenting & Relationships

Pearson

Introduces the concept of crime and addresses key issues such as how we measure criminality, its variety, and the justifications we employ for punishing it. The book also discusses processing institutions: police, prosecutor, defense attorney, courts, sentencing and corrections. The book defines the relationships among these institutions and illustrates the relationships with examples. Materials in the book include cases and statutes, the writings and commentary of legal scholars, articles by social scientists and humanists, newspaper editorials and reports by criminal justice practitioners.

Criminal Justice: Introductory Cases and Materials, 6th (University Casebook Series)

Feeley, Malcolm

McCoy, Candace

Criminal Law

Foundation Press

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