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One of the most diverse and inclusive books for the policing course,
Policing: The Essentials, focuses on core concepts and contemporary research to provide a foundational understanding of policing in the current climate of criminal justice.
About the author
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.
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.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.
