This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to gain a better understanding of policing in the United States. As an introductory course, it offers the foundations of policing, from police roles to the issues that police officers are facing today.
Topics and Objectives include: The Role of Police in Our Society, Policing From a Systems Perspective, Patrol, Criminal Investigations and Other Support Units, Organization and Management, Police and the Law, The Use of Discretion, Relating to the Community, Recruitment of Quality Personnel, The Personality of Police Officers, Current and Future Issues.
Preface
Guided Tour
1 What is Policing?
Learning objectives
Key terms
Introduction
Police and policing
What is policing?
A narrow, law enforcement approach
The centrality of 'force' to policing
The practice of policing
Police as bureaucrats
An institutional perspective
Conclusion
Chapter summary
Self-check questions
Study questions
Annotated further reading
Annotated listings of links to relevant websites
2 Historical Origins and Development of the Police in England and Wales
Learning objectives
Key terms
Introduction
A brief history of the police in England and Wales
Urban lawlessness
Political unrest and the limits of the military
The 'demand for order'
Establishing the Metropolitan Police
Concern and controversy: public and political responses to the 'new police'
Expansion and consolidation
Perspectives on the development of the police
Orthodox and revisionist accounts
Limits to orthodox and revisionist perspectives
Old wine in new bottles?
Conclusion
Chapter summary
Self-check questions
Study questions
Annotated further reading
Annotated link to websites
3 Police Powers: The Legal Framework
Learning objectives
Key terms
Introduction
The consolidation of police powers
Police power vs the rights of the suspect
PACE in practice
PACE powers to stop and search
Additional powers to stop and search
PACE powers of entry, search and seizure
Other powers of entry
Police powers of arrest
Police powers of detention
Police power: the wider context
Conclusion
Chapter summary
Self-check questions
Study questions
Annotated further reading
Annotated listings of links to relevant websites
4 Community Policing
5 Police Culture
6 Who Guards the Guards?
7 Policing Diversity
8 Plural Policing
9 Surveillance,IT and the Future of Policing
Answers to self-check questions
References
Index
