Beyond Community Policing : From Early American Beginnings to the 21st Century.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- 1. Explaining the Police -- The Anomaly of the Police -- Sociology and Criminology -- Some Conceptual Issues -- The Trials and Tribulations of Police Authority -- Bittner's Principle -- An Overview of the Book -- 2. Three Eras of Policing -- Early Policing in London -- The American Situation -- Political Spoils -- Reform and Early Professionalization -- Community Policing -- Conclusion -- 3. Policing in the Wild West -- The Concept of the Frontier -- Lewis and Clark, and Beyond -- Growing Populations, Army Intervention, and Territorial Policing -- Frontier Towns, Instability, and Lawlessness -- The Code of the West -- The Case of Wichita, Kansas -- Conclusion -- 4. Integrity Testing and the Decision to Arrest -- Why Integrity Testing? -- Examples of Integrity Tests -- Ethics of Integrity Testing -- The Decision to Arrest -- Conclusion -- 5. Post 9-11 Policing: A Functional Analysis -- An Overview of Findings and Recommendations -- Community Policing and Beyond -- A Look at the New Paradigm of Policing: The Post 9-11 Model -- Institutionalism versus Functionalism -- Introducing Parsons' AGIL Schema -- Cybernetics and the Criminal Justice System -- The Post 9-11 Model in Relation to Police Functions -- Implementing Post 9-11 Policing -- Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here? -- 6. Elements of Police Discretion -- Factors in the Production of Discretion -- Increased Discretion with Role Diversity -- Decision Points in Police Discretion -- Eleven Working Rules for Police -- Can or Should Discretion Be Controlled? -- 7. The Concept of Proactivity: From Indirect Conation to Modern Municipal Policing -- Preliminaries: The Beginnings of Proactivity -- True Beginnings: Lester F. Ward and Conation.

Ogburn and the Project of Social Prediction -- Proactivity in the 1950s and 1960s: Small Group and Communications Research -- Meso- and Macro-Levels -- Proactivity and Public Health -- Proactive Policing: A Beginning -- Negative and Positive Police Proactivity -- Summary and Conclusion -- 8. Police as Contact Men and Women -- The Horizons of Patrol Work -- The Emergence of Professional Policing in America -- Police and Technology -- Boundary-Spanning Structures and Activities in the Police Organization -- Hirsch's Idea of the "Contact Man" -- The Contact Man within Modern Police Organizations -- Communities and Networks -- Police as Contact Persons within the Community -- Conclusion -- 9. Security and Private Policing -- The Concept of Privacy -- Back to the Wild West -- Privacy and Security -- Economics and Privatization -- Conclusion -- 10. Police and Society: A Summary of Principles -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Bibliography -- Index.

Beyond Community Policing uses history and general sociological theory to examine the trajectory of municipal policing from Britain in the 1830s to its adoption and evolution in the America.

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