Archbold / Huynh / Mrozla Policing

The Essentials
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5443-4953-4
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, EPUB

Offering a brief, accessible, and timely introduction,
Policing: The Essentials, hones in on core concepts and provides strong coverage on the foundations of policing. Authors
Carol A. Archbold, Carol M. Huynh, and
Thomas Mrozla use contemporary scholarship to focus on the current climate of policing and criminal justice, crafting one of the most diverse and inclusive books for the policing course.


With a unique chapter on police effectiveness and community policing, plus ample opportunities for critical thinking and application by the reader,
Policing: The Essentials offers a close examination of what matters in policing today and provides students with the key information they need to understand modern policing practices in our society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Archbold, Carol A.

Huynh, Carol My

Mrozla, Thomas J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Overview of the Police in the United States

Chapter 1. A Timeline of Policing in America

Chapter 2. Traditional and Contemporary Policing Strategies

Chapter 3. The Scope of American Law Enforcement

Chapter 4. Police Officers and Police Culture: Diversity and Workplace Experiences

Chapter 5. Becoming a Police Officer: Recruitment, Selection, Training and Promotion

Part II. Police Operations and Effectiveness

Chapter 6. Police Organization and Leadership

Chapter 7. Patrol, Investigations, and Technology

Chapter 8. Police Effectiveness

Chapter 9. Police Liability and Accountability

Part III. Police and Society

Chapter 10. The Public and the Police: Perceptions and Interactions

Chapter 11. Discretion and the Police

Chapter 12. Police Deviance and Ethics

Chapter 13. Contemporary Issues in American Policing

Über Autor(innen)

Archbold, Carol A.

Carol A. Archbold is the Walter F. and Verna Gehrts Endowed Professor at North Dakota State University in the Department of Criminal Justice in Fargo, North Dakota. Her research interests include police accountability and liability, police misconduct, women in policing, and race issues in the criminal justice system. She has published articles in such peer-reviewed journals as Police Quarterly, Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Journal of Crime and Justice. In 2004, Dr. Archbold published a book based on the first national study of the use of risk management in law enforcement in the United States, Police Accountability, Risk Management and Legal Advising (LFB Scholarly Publishing). She coauthored Women and Policing in America: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Wolters Kluwer/Aspen, 2011) and is the sole author of Policing: A Text/Reader (SAGE, 2013). Dr. Archbold is also coauthor (with Dr. Samuel Walker) of the second (2014) and third (2020) editions of The New World of Police Accountability.

Huynh, Carol My

Carol M. Huynh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at North Carolina Central University. She earned her Ph.D. in criminal justice and her M.S. degree in psychology from North Dakota State University. Her research interests include citizens’ perceptions of the police and police services, police and race, and police accountability. In addition to having peer-reviewed articles published in psychology journals, Dr. Huynh has published articles in peer-reviewed criminal justice journals such as the Social Science Journal, Journal of Crime and Criminal Justice, and Deviant Behavior.

Mrozla, Thomas J.

Thomas Mrozla is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Political Science at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, South Dakota. He earned his Ph.D. from North Dakota State University, and his dissertation examined the timeliness of police misconduct investigations. Dr. Mrozla’s research interests include topics in police accountability, perceptions of the police, and fear of crime. He has published peer-reviewed articles in the Social Science Journal, Deviant Behavior, and Journal of Crime and Justice, and Policing: An International Journal.