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Career experiences of African American police executives : black in blue revisited / R. Alan Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, R. Alan.
- Series:
- Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- Criminal justice : recent scholarship
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police chiefs--United States.
- Police chiefs.
- United States.
- African American police.
- Occupations and race.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 178 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2003.
- Contents:
- The impetus for racial integration of American policing
- A brief history of black police
- Early treatment of black officers by police departments
- Black and white officers together on the job
- Black officers and the black community
- Black officers and the white community
- Institutional barriers to widespread promotion
- A tentative notion of the black executive's working world
- The research initiative
- Research findings
- Observations and conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1931202575
- OCLC:
- 51447032
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