The police mystique : an insider's look at cops, crime, and the criminal justice system /

The author, a retired police chief with 36 years of experience in policing and police management, examines the general and specific nature of policing and how it is structured and implemented to meet its goals. An overview of the dynamics of the police world is followed by a discussion of the tasks...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bouza, Anthony V.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y. : Plenum Press, [1990]
Subjects:	Police > United States. Police > États-Unis. Politie. Polizei. Erlebnisbericht. USA. Police. United States. Police United States Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Foreword / Norval Morris
Preface
Chapter 1. The police world
Chapter 2. The police agency
Chapter 3. Life within the police agency
Chapter 4. The police organization's internal climate
Chapter 5. Cops
Chapter 6. The slippery slope of crime, arrests, and statistics
Chapter 7. Street criminals and how they got that way
Chapter 8. Service and traffic
Chapter 9. Management problems, concerns, and opportunities
Chapter 10. Controversies within the police agency
Chapter 11. Cops and the constitution
Chapter 12. Controlling the criminal
Chapter 13. Responding to woman battering
Chapter 14. External challenges, controversies, and opportunities
Chapter 15. Myths, unions, press, weather, and crime
Chapter 16. Reforms : setting the stage
Chapter 17. Reforms : doing it
Chapter 18. The future
Bibliography
Index.