Beyond community policing : from early American beginnings to the 21st century / / James J. Chriss

• Autore: Chriss James J. <1955-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.2091733
• Soggetto topico: Police - United States - History; Community policing - United States - History; Police-community relations - United States - History
• Note generali: First published 2011 by Paradigm Publishers.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Permissions; 1. Explaining the Police; The Anomaly of the Police; Sociology and Criminology; Some Conceptual Issues; The Trials and Tribulations of Police Authority; Bittner's Principle; An Overview of the Book; 2. Three Eras of Policing; Early Policing in London; The American Situation; Political Spoils; Reform and Early Professionalization; Community Policing; Conclusion; 3. Policing in the Wild West; The Concept of the Frontier; Lewis and Clark, and Beyond ; Growing Populations, Army Intervention, and Territorial PolicingFrontier Towns, Instability, and Lawlessness; The Code of the West; The Case of Wichita, Kansas; Conclusion; 4. Integrity Testing and the Decision to Arrest; Why Integrity Testing?; Examples of Integrity Tests; Ethics of Integrity Testing; The Decision to Arrest; Conclusion; 5. Post 9-11 Policing: A Functional Analysis; An Overview of Findings and Recommendations; Community Policing and Beyond; A Look at the New Paradigm of Policing: The Post 9-11 Model; Institutionalism versus Functionalism; Introducing Parsons' AGIL Schema ; Cybernetics and the Criminal Justice SystemThe Post 9-11 Model in Relation to Police Functions; Implementing Post 9-11 Policing; Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?; 6. Elements of Police Discretion; Factors in the Production of Discretion; Increased Discretion with Role Diversity; Decision Points in Police Discretion; Eleven Working Rules for Police; Can or Should Discretion Be Controlled?; 7. The Concept of Proactivity: From Indirect Conation to Modern Municipal Policing; Preliminaries: The Beginnings of Proactivity; True Beginnings: Lester F. Ward and Conation ; Ogburn and the Project of Social PredictionProactivity in the 1950s and 1960s: Small Group and Communications Research; Meso- and Macro-Levels; Proactivity and Public Health; Proactive Policing: A Beginning; Negative and Positive Police Proactivity; Summary and Conclusion; 8. Police as Contact Men and Women; The Horizons of Patrol Work; The Emergence of Professional Policing in America; Police and Technology; Boundary-Spanning Structures and Activities in the Police Organization; Hirsch's Idea of the "Contact Man"; The Contact Man within Modern Police Organizations; Communities and Networks ; Police as Contact Persons within the CommunityConclusion; 9. Security and Private Policing; The Concept of Privacy; Back to the Wild West; Privacy and Security; Economics and Privatization; Conclusion; 10. Police and Society: A Summary of Principles; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Beyond Community Policing uses history and general sociological theory to examine the trajectory of municipal policing from Britain in the 1830s to its adoption and evolution in the America.
• Altri titoli varianti: Beyond community policing : from early American beginnings to the twenty first century
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond community policing
• ISBN: 1-317-26322-7; 1-315-63583-6; 1-317-26321-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813052703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II