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This bundle includes Kenneth J. Peak′s A Brief Introduction to Criminal Justice & Steven Hougland′s The SAGE Guide to Writing in Criminal Justice
About the author
Ken Peak is professor emeritus and former chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Reno, where he was named "Teacher of the Year" by the university's Honor Society. After serving as a municipal police officer in Kansas, he subsequently held positions as a nine-county criminal justice planner; director of a four-state Technical Assistance Institute for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration; chief of university police at Pittsburg State University (Kansas); acting chief, department of public safety, University of Nevada, Reno; and assistant professor of criminal justice at Wichita State University. He has published more than 40 textbooks (on general and community policing, criminal justice administration, police supervision and management, introductory criminal justice, and women in law enforcement), two historical books (on Kansas bootlegging and temperance), and more than 60 additional journal articles and invited book chapters. He served as chairman of the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences; president of the Western and Pacific Association of Criminal Justice Educators; and two gubernatorial appointments to statewide criminal justice committees while residing in Kansas. He holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas.
Steven M. Hougland is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. He is a retired law enforcement officer with 30 years of policing and corrections experience at the local and state level. Dr. Hougland has published in the areas of police use of force, law enforcement accreditation, and police ethics.
