The police and society : touchstone readings / [edited by] Victor E. Kappeler.

Other author Kappeler, Victor E.
Format Book
Edition3rd ed.
Publication InfoLong Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxi, 586 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents A history of police and society. The evolving strategy of policing / George L. Kelling and Mark H. Moore -- The evolving strategy of police : a minority view / Hubert Williams and Patrick V. Murphy -- "Broken windows" and fractured history : the use and misuse of history in recent police patrol analysis / Samuel Walker -- Revising the histories and futures of policing / Victor G. Strecher -- The iron fist and the velvet glove / Crime and Social Justice Associates. The role of the police in society. The police : mandate, strategies, and appearances / Peter K. Manning -- The capacity to use force as the core of the police role / Egon Bittner -- Street justice : a moral defense of order maintenance policing / Gary W. Sykes -- Street justice : some micro-moral reservations : comment on Sykes / Carl B. Klockars -- Broken windows : James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling -- Policing the contemporary city : fixing broken windows or shoring up neo-liberalism? / Steve Herbert.
Contents The society of police. The quasi-military organization of the police / Egon Bittner -- The informal "code" of police deviancy : a group approach to "blue-coat crime" / Ellwyn R. Stoddard -- People who don't even know you / Victor G. Strecher -- Kinsmen in repose : occupational perspectives of patrolmen / John Van Maanen -- Discretion in detectives' decision making and "high profile" cases / Marilyn Corsianos -- Breeding deviant conformity : police ideology and culture / Victor E. Kappeler, Richard D. Sluder and Geoffrey P. Alpert. Policing society. The asshole / John van Maanen -- The violence and the police / William A. Westley -- Police accounts of normal force / Jennifer Hunt -- The police on Skid-row : a study of peace keeping / Egon Bittner -- Dumping : police-initiated transjurisdictional transport of troublesome persons / William R. King and Thomas H. Dunn -- The Dirty Harry problem / Carl B. Klockars -- To serve and pursue : exploring police sexual violence against women / Peter B. Kraska and Victor E. Kappeler.
Contents The police in contemporary society. Economic rhetoric and policing reform / Peter K. Manning -- Third-party policing : theoretical analysis of an emerging trend / Michael E. Buerger and Lorraine Green Mazerolle -- Militarizing American police : the rise and normalization of paramilitary units / Peter B. Kraska and Victor E. Kappeler -- Theorizing policing : the drama and myth of crime control in the NYPD / Peter K. Manning -- The myopic panopticon : the social consequences of policing through the lens / Stéphane Leman-Langlois -- Reinventing the police and society : economic revolutions, dangerousness, and social control / Victor E. Kappeler and Karen S. Miller.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN1577664175
ISBN9781577664178

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