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Thinking about police : contemporary readings / [edited by] Carl B. Klockars, Stephen D. Mastrofski.

Other author/creatorKlockars, Carl B.
Other author/creatorMastrofski, Stephen D.
Format Book and Print
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoNew York : McGraw-Hill, ©1991.
Descriptionxiii, 551 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Contents [pt.] 1. Images and expectations: Recollections of notable cops / H.L. Mencken -- Blue knight / Joseph Wambaugh -- Holmes and Watson / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Raymond Chandler's knight / Raymond Chandler -- Functions of police in modern society / Egon Bittner -- [pt.] 2. Origins and comparisons: Vigilante policing / Richard Maxwell Brown -- Cops and bobbies, 1830-1870 / Wilbur R. Miller -- Chicago Cops, 1880-1925 / Mark H. Haller -- August Vollmer / Nathan Douthit -- Reform at a standstill / Robert M. Fogelson -- [pt.] 3. Kansas City preventive patrol experiment / George L. Kelling, Tony Pate, Duane Dieckman, and Charles E. Brown -- Response time / William G. Spelman and Dale K. Brown -- Rand study of detectives / Jan Chaiken, Peter Greenwood, and Joan Petersilia -- Police crackdowns / Lawrence W. Sherman -- Dismal economics of the war on drugs / Peter Reuter and Mark A.R. Kleiman -- New police undercover work / Gary T. Marx -- Modern sting / Carl B. Klockars -- [pt.] 4. Policing everyday life: What police do / Jack Greene and Carl B. Klockars -- Nonenforcement: minor violations and disturbances / Michael K. Brown -- Policing the new immigrant ghettos / Phillip B. Taft, Jr. -- Family beef / William Ker Muir, Jr. -- [pt.] 5. Police discretion: the case of selective enforcement: Social organization of arrest: citizen discretion / Donald Black -- Patrol officer arrest rates: a study of the social organization of police work / William F. Walsh -- Organizational determinants of police discretion: the case of drinking-driving / Stephen D. Mastrofski, R. Richard Ritti, and Debra Hoffmaster -- Omaha domestic violence experiment / Franklyn W. Dunford, David Huizinga, and Delbert S. Elliott -- [pt.] 6. Moral hazards: Invitational edges / Peter K. Manning and Lawrence John Redlinger -- Dirty Harry problem / Carl B. Klockars -- Blue lines and police placebos: the moralities of police lying / Carl B. Klockars -- Getting around the Fourth Amendment / L. Paul Sutton -- Deadly force: what we know / William A. Geller and Michael S. Scott -- [pt.] 7. Prospects for policing: the current debate: Improving policing: a problem-oriented approach / Herman Goldstein -- New blue line / Jerome H. Skolnick and David H. Bayley -- Who ya gonna call? The police as problem-busters / John E. Eck and William Spelman -- Community policing as reform: a cautionary tale / Stephen D. Mastrofski -- Rhetoric of community policing / Carl B. Klockars.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Thinking about police. 2nd ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1991
LCCN 90024747
ISBN0070350817
ISBN9780070350816

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Joyner General Stacks HV8138 .T48 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold