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This comprehensive text provides an overview of law enforcement topics, integrating major empirical findings and theory-based research findings in the field with a thorough analysis of contemporary policing problems.
The issues-oriented discussion focuses on critical concerns facing American police, including personnel systems, organization and management, operations, discretion, use of force, culture and behavior, ethics and deviance, civil liability and police-community relations. A critical assessment of police history and the role politics played in the development of American police institutions is offered. Globalization, terrorism and homeland security are addressed.
Video and Internet links provide additional coverage of topics discussed in the text.
In full color, with color photographs and illustrations.
Video links provide additional coverage of topics discussed in the text.
Key concepts, Internet links, charts and tables support the text throughout.
Includes a glossary.
List of contents
1. The Police in American Society
2. Historical Perspectives
3. Police Human Resources
4. Organization and Management
5. Police Operations
6. Police Discretion
7. Police Use of Force
8. Police Culture and Behavior
9. Ethics and Deviance
10. Civil Liability
11. The Police in the Modern Community
12. Policing the Drug Problem
13. Globalization, Terrorism, and Homeland Security
About the author
Dr. Gaines is professor and chair of the Criminal Justice Department. He has considerable law enforcement experience with the Kentucky State Police and the Lexington, Kentucky Police Department. He served as the Executive Director of the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police for 14 years and has consulted with a variety of police agencies in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, and California. Dr. Gaines has served as Secretary Treasurer and President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. In 1991, he received the Founders Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and in 1995, he received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Southern Criminal Justice Association and the Outstanding Service Award from the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. From 1984 to 1992, he served as the Kentucky representative to the States' Association of Chiefs of Police, and in 1997, he was appointed to the Kentucky Attorney General's Task Force on Prescription Drug Diversion. He currently serves on the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Academy Advisory Council and the San Bernardino County Public Safety Training & Education Committee. In 2001, he served as a member of the California POST Committee that developed police training curricula for racial profiling.
