The Police in America: An Introduction

This is a comprehensive, introductory survey of police, police work, and police systems intended for criminal justice courses on police administration, and courses on criminology or the sociology of law enforcement. It describes how police departments are organized, what police officers do, the different problems in policing (police-community relations, use of discretion, police corruption, etc) how individuals enter policing as a career and what happens to them during the course of their careers. There are three new chapters on community policing, police and crime, and peacekeeping and order maintenance.