Policing : a text/reader / Carol A. Archbold.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-557) and index.

Foreword -- Preface and introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Overview of police in the United States -- History of the police -- How to read a research article -- Slave patrol as a transitional police type / Philip Reichel -- The evolving strategy of policing / George Kelling and Mark Moore -- Improving policing : a problem-oriented approach? / Herman Goldstein -- Intelligence-led policing conceptual and functional considerations for public policy / David Carter and Jeremy Carter -- Women in tribal policing : an examination of their status and experiences? / Eileen Luna-Firebaugh -- Community policing in small town and rural America? / Ralph Weisheit, Edward Wells, and David Falcone -- An examination of the workplace experiences of police patrol officers : the role of race, sex, and sexual orientation / Kimberly Hassell and Steven Brandl -- Understanding police culture / John Crank -- Higher education and policing : where are we now? / Roy Roberg and Scott Bonn -- Factors affecting the decision of police recruits to "drop out" of police work / Robin Haarr -- Police operations and effectiveness -- Police organizations and leadership -- First-line supervision and strategic decision making under compstat and community policing / James Willis -- Behind the shield : the police in urban society (an excerpt)? / Arthur Niederhoffer -- Gender difference or indifference? : detective decision making in sexual assault cases / Megan Alderden and Sarah Ullman -- The integration of crime analysis into law enforcement agencies : an exploratory study into the perceptions of crime analysts? / Bruce Taylor, Apollo Kowalyk, and Rachel Boba -- Police effectiveness -- The specific deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault? / Lawrence Sherman and Richard Berk -- Philadelphia foot patrol experiment : a randomized controlled trail of police patrol effectiveness in violent crime hotspots? / Jerry Ratcliffe, Travis Taniguchi, Elizabeth Groff, and Jennifer Wood -- Managing the bottom line: risk management in policing? / Carol Archbold -- Early warning systems for police : concept, history, and issues? / Samuel Walker, Geoffrey Alpert, and Dennis Kenney -- Police and society -- Citizens & the police : perceptions and interactions -- Perceptions of police and safety in a small town? / Stacey Nofziger and L. Susan Williams -- Angels and assholes : the construction of police morality? / John Crank and Michael Caldero -- Police officers' decisions making and discretion : forming suspicion and making a stop / Geoffrey Alpert, Roger Dunham, Meghan Stroshine, Katherine Bennett, and John MacDonald -- Racial profiling : a survey of african american police officers? / David Barlow and Melissa Barlow -- The dirty harry problem / Carl Klockars -- Police integrity : rankings of scenarios on the klockars scale by "management cops" / Gennaro Vito, Scott Wolfe, George Higgins, and William Walsh -- Racial profiling and immigration law enforcement : rounding up of usual suspects in the latino community / Mary Romero -- Dumping : police-initiated tran jurisdictional transport of troublesome persons? / William King and Thomas Dunn -- Glossary -- References -- Credits and sources -- Index -- About the author.