This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the
United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for
today's law enforcement officers. Author George C. Klein,
sociologist and former police officer, explores the characteristics
of policing in a suburb outside of large Midwestern city in the
United States. As a participant-observation fieldworker, he
functioned as an ethnographic researcher, recording with a
sociological eye the "real world" tasks of policing, including the
ordinary as well as the more remarkable aspects of day-to-day law
enforcement. He approaches the data with three levels of analysis,
looking at embedded issues in policing, such as discretion, danger,
corruption, cynicism, race, and class; a mid-range analysis that
examines police work as an example of street-level bureaucracy; and
a global analysis assessing the entrenched roles of race, class,
and demography in police work, as well as, society, in the U.S.
This book focuses on the need for police officers to solve social
problems that other institutions in society are unwilling, or
unable, to solve. It examines a myriad of issues, such as police
socialization, the use of force by police officers, stress levels
and suicide risk factors, disparate styles of policing, police
militarization, de-escalation, and more. With compelling detail,
the author helps the reader understand the turmoil regarding
policing in the United States today. It is ideal for police
professionals as well as students and scholars of criminal justice,
criminology, sociology, psychology, history, political science and
journalism.
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