Books for Policing Courses

Community Policing

A Police-Citizen Partnership

By Michael Palmiotto

Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

This textbook discusses the role of community-oriented policing, including the police image, public expectations, ethics in law enforcement, community wellness, civilian review boards, and what the community can do to help decrease crime rates. In addition, the author covers basic interpersonal...

Published January 9th 2011 by Routledge

Surveillance and Democracy

Edited by Kevin D. Haggerty, Minas Samatas

This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy. Is surveillance a barrier to democratic processes, or might it be a necessary component of democracy? How has the legacy of post 9/11...

Published June 10th 2010 by Routledge-Cavendish

The Policing of Terrorism

Organizational and Global Perspectives

By Mathieu Deflem

Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

This book offers an analysis of the policing of terrorism in a variety of national and international contexts. Centered on developments since the events of September 11, 2001, the study devotes its empirical attention to important police aspects of counter-terrorism in the United States and...

Published December 15th 2009 by Routledge