1 option
Twentieth-century influences on twenty-first-century policing : continued lessons of police reform / Jonathon A. Cooper.
LIBRA HV8139 .C66 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Jonathon A., 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--United States.
- Police.
- United States.
- Police misconduct--United States.
- Police misconduct.
- Police administration--United States.
- Police administration.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 159 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
- Summary:
- Events in the United States during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was especially true in terms of their relationship with society. Such events included the due process revolution, which guided how police were to do their job; social science research that called into question that efficacy of the professional policing model; and race riots caused by poor police-minority community relations. This book outlines these and other changes, explores their implications for the relationship between society and the police, and suggests that a knowledge of these changes is imperative to understanding trends in contemporary policing as well as the direction policing needs to take. As policing becomes more technologically savvy and scientific in its approach to fighting crime at a time when governments are faced with austerity, it is important to reconsider how policing got to the point it is so that, as police organizations and governments move forward, constitutional guarantees are protected, communication with citizens remains viable and salient, and crime prevention becomes an empirical reality rather than a pipe-dream. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A primer on the history of American policing
- The due process revolution and the Warren Court
- Civil rights and the police
- A due process approach in the face of police conservatism
- The systems approach to criminal justice
- Social science research
- A rising crime rate and police corruption
- What professional policing then means for 21st century policing now.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739189047
- 0739189042
- OCLC:
- 900180162
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.