Introduction to Law Enforcement An Insider's View

Name: Introduction to Law Enforcement An Insider's View
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ISBN: 9780757508240

ISBN-10: 0757508243

ISBN-13: 9780757508240

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Bill Doerner

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This text covers the context of law enforcement, selection and hiring practices, becoming a police officer, and criminal and constitutional law, and looks at issues and procedures the police deal with on and off the beat, including arrests, use of force, stress, and regulating police behavior. Learning features include chapter objectives and summar

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List price: $73.45
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company
Publication date: 1/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 526
Weight: 4.972
Language: English

List of Figures	p. xv
List of Tables	p. xviii
The Context of Law Enforcement	p. 1
Early Efforts at Policing	p. 3
Maintaining Social Order	p. 5
Standards of Behavior	p. 5
Controlling Social Behavior	p. 6
Types of Society	p. 8
Societal Development	p. 9
Early English Law Enforcement	p. 10
The Challenge of Urban Growth	p. 11
A Step toward Paid Police Protection	p. 12
Sir Robert Peel and the Bobbies	p. 13
Law Enforcement in Developing America	p. 15
Law and Order on the Frontier	p. 16
Vigilante Policing	p. 16
The Rise of Private Security	p. 18
Critical Issues in 20th Century Law Enforcement	p. 27
The Wickersham Commission	p. 29
The 1967 President's Commission	p. 32
The Kerner Report	p. 34
Standards and Goals	p. 36
The Knapp Commission	p. 39
Contemporary Critical Incidents	p. 42
The Mollen Report	p. 42
The Christopher Report	p. 44
The Sequel to the Christopher Report	p. 46
The Siege at Waco	p. 47
Racial Profiling	p. 48
The Structure of American Law Enforcement	p. 59
The American Police System	p. 61
The Federal Level	p. 63
Federal Officers	p. 63
Department of Justice Agencies	p. 63
Department of the Treasury Agencies	p. 67
Other Federal Agencies	p. 67
The State Level	p. 68
The Local Level	p. 68
City Police Departments	p. 69
County Sheriffs' Offices	p. 72
Some Observations	p. 72
Special Jurisdiction Agencies	p. 75
Agency Organizational Structure	p. 76
The Budget Picture	p. 79
Better Resource Management	p. 80
Civilianization	p. 80
Assets Forfeiture	p. 84
Computerization for Patrol Officers	p. 90
Behind the Badge	p. 103
Selection and Hiring Practices	p. 107
Police Officer Selection	p. 109
The Selection Process	p. 111
The Application	p. 111
The Written Psychological Exam	p. 112
The Background Investigation	p. 116
Polygraph Testing	p. 117
The Psychological Interview	p. 117
A Closer Look at Psychological Testing	p. 118
Subjective Performance Measures	p. 118
Objective Performance Measures	p. 119
Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scales	p. 119
Explaining the Gap	p. 120
The Oral Board Interview	p. 120
The Eligibility List	p. 124
The Medical Check	p. 124
Other Hiring Issues	p. 125
Higher Education for Cops	p. 126
Are College-Educated Recruits Better?	p. 126
Do College-Educated Cops Perform Better?	p. 128
Whom Are Agencies Hiring?	p. 129
Black Police Officers	p. 130
Black Representation in Policing	p. 130
Reaction to Black Officers	p. 133
Female Patrol Officers	p. 134
Initial Barriers	p. 135
Are Females Good Recruits?	p. 136
Female Officer Performance	p. 136
Reaction to Female Officers	p. 138
The Choice	p. 138
The Current Market Dilemma	p. 141
Becoming a Cop	p. 159
Pre-Entry: Reasons for Becoming a Police Officer	p. 162
Admittance: Police Minimum Standards	p. 163
The President's Commission	p. 163
The National Advisory Commission	p. 164
The State Response	p. 165
Basic Police Training	p. 165
Career Development Incentives	p. 167
Change: Post-Academy Training	p. 172
A Typical Field Training Officer Program	p. 173
Program Description	p. 174
Performance Evaluation	p. 174
Does the FTO Program Remove Barriers?	p. 178
Officer Reaction to FTO Training	p. 180
The Field Experience	p. 181
Continuance: Adaptation to the Police World	p. 183
Another Look at Psychological Testing	p. 183
Attitudinal Change	p. 185
Cynicism	p. 186
Stages of Cynicism	p. 186
Types of Cynicism	p. 187
The Police "Working Personality"	p. 188
The Police Subculture	p. 190
Lessons in Criminal Law	p. 201
The Nature of Criminal Law	p. 203
Violent Offenses	p. 205
Homicide	p. 205
Justifiable Homicide	p. 205
Excusable Homicide	p. 205
Murder	p. 206
Manslaughter	p. 206
The Felony-Murder Rule	p. 208
Assault and Battery	p. 209
Sexual Battery	p. 210
Robbery	p. 211
Kidnapping and False Imprisonment	p. 212
Property Offenses	p. 213
Larceny-Theft	p. 213
Burglary	p. 214
Vandalism	p. 216
Other Considerations	p. 216
Lessons in Constitutional Law	p. 225
Searches, Seizures, and Warrants	p. 227
Warrantless Searches and Seizures	p. 229
Search Incidental to Arrest	p. 230
Automobile Searches	p. 230
Plain View	p. 232
Exigent Circumstances	p. 234
Hot Pursuit	p. 235
Evidence Preservation	p. 235
Public Safety	p. 235
Stop and Frisk	p. 237
Consent	p. 240
Abandonment	p. 243
Inventory	p. 244
Interrogation	p. 246
Past Interrogation Practices	p. 247
The Wickersham Commission	p. 247
Continued Use of Third-Degree Tactics	p. 248
Escobedo v. Illinois	p. 249
Miranda v. Arizona	p. 250
The Legal Legacy of Miranda	p. 251
Custodial Interrogations	p. 251
Failure to Warn	p. 252
Invocation of Miranda	p. 253
The Diffusion of Knowledge: A Bottleneck	p. 254
On the Streets	p. 265
The Arrest Decision	p. 267
Full versus Selective Enforcement	p. 269
Reasons for Police Discretion	p. 271
Unclear Laws	p. 271
Nuisance Behavior	p. 272
Broad Statutes	p. 272
Moral Standards	p. 272
Outdated Laws	p. 273
Defining Discretion	p. 273
Handling Calls for Service	p. 274
Police Operators and Dispatchers	p. 274
Handling Calls in the Field	p. 277
Observational Studies	p. 277
Controlling the Call	p. 280
Putting It Together	p. 281
The Arrest Decision	p. 282
Field Encounter Studies	p. 282
Simulation Studies	p. 287
Police Bias in the Arrest Decision	p. 288
Racism	p. 288
Early Studies	p. 289
Later Studies	p. 290
Sexism	p. 291
Early Studies	p. 292
Later Studies	p. 292
A Critique	p. 293
Controlling Police Discretion	p. 295
The Locus of Change	p. 295
The Policy Formulation Process	p. 296
Styles of Policing	p. 309
Police Typologies	p. 311
Wilson: Varieties of Police Behavior	p. 312
White: Professionalization	p. 314
Broderick: Due Process and Social Order	p. 318
Muir: Passion and Perspective	p. 321
Brown: Working the Street	p. 324
Testing Police Typologies	p. 327
Application of Muir's Typology	p. 327
Synthesizing Police Typologies	p. 328
Individual and Organizational Styles	p. 328
Some Final Thoughts	p. 329
Use of Force	p. 335
Accidental Deaths in the Line of Duty	p. 337
Assaults in the Line of Duty	p. 338
Murders in the Line of Duty	p. 339
Officers Murdered	p. 340
Police Killers	p. 341
Circumstances	p. 342
Off-Duty Intervention	p. 343
Trends in Police Murders	p. 344
The Ecology of Police Murders	p. 347
Police Murders and Community Violence	p. 348
The Death Penalty as Protection	p. 348
Death Benefit Provisions	p. 349
Police-Caused Deaths	p. 350
Incidence	p. 351
Opponent Race	p. 353
The Hazard Hypothesis	p. 354
Elective versus Non-Elective Shootings	p. 354
Social Disparity	p. 355
Authorization of Deadly Force	p. 356
The Fleeing Felon Rule	p. 356
An Impetus for Change	p. 357
Tennessee v. Garner	p. 359
Post-Garner Developments	p. 361
Deadly Force Policy Revisions	p. 362
Rethinking Use-of-Force Strategies	p. 362
Less-Lethal Weaponry	p. 365
Justifying the Use of Force	p. 369
The Police Organization	p. 369
Police Officers	p. 370
Prospective Beliefs	p. 371
Retrospective Beliefs	p. 371
Types of Force	p. 372
Off the Streets	p. 383
Stress-The Occupational Scourge?	p. 385
Defining Stress	p. 387
Types of Stress	p. 388
The Stress Reaction Cycle	p. 388
Sources of Police Stress	p. 390
Intra-Individual Sources	p. 390
Interpersonal Sources	p. 391
Organizational Sources	p. 394
Shift Work	p. 394
Equipment	p. 395
Citizen Complaints	p. 395
Environmental Sources	p. 396
The Community	p. 396
The Criminal Justice System	p. 396
The Threat of Danger	p. 398
The Consequences of Police Stress	p. 400
Morbidity and Mortality	p. 400
Alcohol Abuse	p. 402
Suicide	p. 404
Marital Tensions	p. 405
Another Outlook on Police Stress	p. 407
Stress Management	p. 411
Eliminating Stressors	p. 411
Learning to Cope	p. 413
Reaching Out	p. 414
Regulating Police Behavior	p. 427
The Need for Policy Guidelines	p. 429
Contents of Policy Guidelines	p. 431
Secondary Employment as an Example	p. 432
Internal Affairs	p. 434
Types of Disciplinary Actions	p. 435
Procedural Protections	p. 436
Decertification	p. 441
External Sources of Relief	p. 446
Federal Civil Rights Violations	p. 446
Tort Actions against the Police	p. 448
Intentional Tort	p. 448
Negligence Tort	p. 449
Do These Strategies Work?	p. 449
Profession or Occupation	p. 457
The Meaning of "Profession"	p. 460
A Specialized Body of Knowledge	p. 460
Licensing	p. 461
Authority and Autonomy	p. 462
Altruism	p. 463
A Code of Ethics	p. 463
A Final Note	p. 463
Barriers to Professional Status	p. 465
"Dirty Work"	p. 465
The Closed Police World	p. 466
Police Unionization	p. 467
Modern Police Strikes	p. 468
Public Reaction	p. 470
Crime during Strikes	p. 471
Preventing Future Strikes	p. 472
Upgrading Police Agencies	p. 474
The Quest for Police Professionalism	p. 476
Professionalizing Police Officers	p. 477
Transforming the FBI into an Elite	p. 478
Professionalism Taking Root	p. 478
The Journey Ahead	p. 478
Salaries	p. 479
Opportunities for Promotion	p. 479
Career Mobility	p. 480
Leadership	p. 481
Retirement	p. 491
Issues in Aging	p. 494
The Retirement Decision	p. 494
The Second Career	p. 497
Health Concerns	p. 499
Phases of Retirement	p. 500
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