ABSTRACT
This edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating specific crimes. Individual chapters strike at critical issues for police today, such as maintaining the well-being of officers, handling stress, hiring practices, child sexual exploitation, gunrunning, crime prevention strategies, police legitimacy, and much more.
Understanding how police are hired and behave is a way of understanding different governments around the world. The book will cover the practices of countries as diverse as China, Germany, India, Japan, Turkey, South Africa, the United States, and others. Readers will be exposed to aspects of police that are rarely, if ever, explored.
The book is intended for a wide range of audiences, including law enforcement and community leaders and students of criminal justice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|139 pages
Police Behavior
chapter Chapter 1|19 pages
Cultivating Well-Being Among Police Officers
chapter Chapter 2|17 pages
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Tragedy of Police-Citizen Encounters
chapter Chapter 3|17 pages
The Doctrine of Minimum Force in Policing
chapter Chapter 4|10 pages
Perceptions of Police Officers of the Floating Population
chapter Chapter 5|17 pages
Municipal Police Department's Use of Facebook
chapter Chapter 7|14 pages
Police Discretion
chapter Chapter 8|17 pages
The Role of Legitimacy in Police Reform and Effectiveness
part II|73 pages
Hiring and Training
chapter Chapter 10|18 pages
Hired With Competence
chapter Chapter 11|13 pages
An Examination of Police Corruption Utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior
chapter Chapter 14|10 pages
The Effects of Medical and Recreational Marijuana Policies on Hiring in US Municipal Police Departments
part III|104 pages
Crime Control