NCJ Number
174098
Editor(s)
M L Dantzker
Date Published
1997
Length
294 pages
Annotation
These 10 papers explore changes, issues, and trends associated with the evolution of policing, with emphasis on topics closely related to the quality of police service; the papers are intended to provide students and other readers with a complete overview of current policing issues.
Abstract
Individual papers discuss the entry of women into policing, problems and issues they have experiences, current issues, and future prospects and examine the past and current status of minority group members in policing. Additional papers examine changes and patterns in police recruitment and retention, efforts and improvements associated with the preparation of police personnel for the performance of their job tasks, and police occupational stress. Further papers explore the idea of policing as a profession, including the effort to raise policing to this status; police ethics; the role of crime analysis in policing; and community policing and its effects on police personnel. Other papers focus on issues of police use of force and how technological advances such as computers, weaponry, and communication devices have added new dimensions to policing and how they may influence the future of policing. Tables, index, and chapter discussion questions and reference lists