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Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement provides students with a
highly contemporary collection of readings that articulate the
complexity of modern policing. The anthology provides readers with
articles that have been published since the turn of the
twenty-first century and that demonstrate the richness of
contemporary policing research. Employing a thoroughly academic
approach, the book encourages students to consider the impact of
the twentieth century on modern law enforcement, police and youth,
the role police play in a democratic society, the intersection of
police, politics, and minority populations, and the future of the
administration of justice. Students read articles that discuss
police professionalism, youth perceptions of police, questions of
legitimacy and models for building legitimacy, and how law
enforcement must contend with a society that harbors deeply divided
opinions on the police. Each article is complemented by a brief
introduction and discussion questions to add context and spark
meaningful conversation. Designed to push the conversation forward
on a critical and timely topic, Contemporary Issues in Law
Enforcement is an excellent resource for courses and programs in
criminology and criminal justice.
Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service: Gatekeepers and
Street Corner Psychiatrists focuses on closing the gap in
literature surrounding police responses to mental health calls for
service, with an emphasis on the effect of training and
relationships with mental health agencies, in order to better
understand the interaction between police officers and individuals
with mental health diagnoses. Kayla G. Jachimowski and Jonathon A.
Cooper pay close attention to Crisis Intervention Training (CIT)
and its impact on how police officers would respond to these calls
for service, also examining how the relationships between police,
the community, and mental health service providers impact police
response. Jachimowski and Cooper argue for the importance of police
training about mental health disorders and explore the likelihood
of diverting individuals with mental illness from the criminal
justice system. Scholars of criminology, sociology, and psychology
will find this book particularly useful.
This is a collection of daring chapters on the state of the
discipline. Each chapter considers a specific criminal justice or
criminological problem ... new or persistent ... with fresh eyes.
The contributors pull no punches: their insights are novel,
salient, and sometimes controversial. A Closer Look at Criminal
Justice is thematically divided into three parts. Part 1: Criminal
Justice and Criminology in Education, discusses how we teach our
undergraduate students about race, the way we treat our graduate
students, and inmate education. We wanted to highlight criminal
justice education at the university level in the first part of the
book in large part because this book is best suited in the
classroom, but especially because as educators, we live and breathe
the importance of education. The book progresses in Part 2, Theory
and Praxis, with a discussion of applicable criminological theory
and research methodology in criminal justice where the goal is to
highlight the importance of using theory and research as the
foundation for policy positions, support, and understanding. The
remaining part of the book, Persistent Issues in Criminal Justice,
provides fresh insights on "old" subjects and problems in the
administration of justice, such as community policing, the aging
prison population, and marijuana use in the United States of
America. This book is best suited in senior seminars, capstone, or
contemporary issues courses; master's level classes on the criminal
justice system; and is also important for faculty members and
doctoral students with a vested interest in the current tempo of
criminal justice practice, research, education, and thought.
Reading this book, students and scholars should have a better idea
of the current issues facing our discipline, particularly those
issues that do not get as much exposure as others.
Events in the United States during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s
created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was
especially true in terms of their relationship with society. These
events included, among others: the due process revolution, which
guided how police were to do their job; social science research
that called into question that efficacy of the professional
policing model; and race riots against police activity, which were
the result of poor police-minority community relations. This book
outlines these (and other) changes, explores their implications for
the relationship between society and the police, and suggests that
a knowledge of these changes is imperative to understanding trends
in contemporary policing as well as the direction policing needs to
take. As policing becomes more technologically savvy and scientific
in its approach to fighting crime (for example, the SMART Policing
Initiative, COMPSTAT, and problem oriented approaches such as
Project Safe Neighborhoods) in a time when governments are faced
with austerity, it is important to reconsider how policing got to
the point it is so that, as police and governments move forward,
constitutional guarantees are protected, communication with
citizens remains viable and salient, and crime prevention becomes
an empirical reality rather than a pipe-dream.
Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service: Gatekeepers and
Street Corner Psychiatrists focuses on closing the gap in
literature surrounding police responses to mental health calls for
service, with an emphasis on the effect of training and
relationships with mental health agencies, in order to better
understand the interaction between police officers and individuals
with mental health diagnoses. Kayla G. Jachimowski and Jonathon A.
Cooper pay close attention to Crisis Intervention Training (CIT)
and its impact on how police officers would respond to these calls
for service, also examining how the relationships between police,
the community, and mental health service providers impact police
response. Jachimowski and Cooper argue for the importance of police
training about mental health disorders and explore the likelihood
of diverting individuals with mental illness from the criminal
justice system. Scholars of criminology, sociology, and psychology
will find this book particularly useful.
Using the commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a case-study, along with
two other states as controls, this book examines how BARJ
legislation “trickles down” to the law enforcement level
through Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System Enhancement
Strategy (PJJSES) and the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA). This
legislation is a direct application of the BARJ model to law
enforcement, essentially directing police discretion in the
direction of informal dispositions. The decision to dispose formal
action (such as, a referral to either juvenile court/probation,
criminal court, or adult criminal court) or informal action (for
instance, handling the situation within the department and/or
releasing the juveniles to parents with a warning), play an
integral role in determining which juveniles contact the justice
system. To this end, while the overall focus of our volume and
research is specifically on the impact of the PJJSES and its 2012
amendments on the number of formal dispositions of juvenile
suspects by law enforcement officers, it speaks more broadly to the
ability of the BARJ model to affect police officer behavior through
influencing their decision-making processes.
This newly revised edition includes two new chapters exploring
events in policing since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO
in 2014. More than summarizing historical events, Cooper
contextualizes the subsequent riots in light of classic
sociological theory and political philosophy, and offers a
potential and compelling new direction for improving both police
use of force and the relationship between police and communities.
Events in the United States during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s
created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was
especially true in terms of their relationship with society. These
events included, among others: the due process revolution, which
guided how police were to do their job; social science research
that called into question that efficacy of the professional
policing model; and race riots against police activity, which were
the result of poor police-minority community relations. This book
outlines these (and other) changes, explores their implications for
the relationship between society and the police, and suggests that
a knowledge of these changes is imperative to understanding trends
in contemporary policing as well as the direction policing needs to
take. As policing becomes more technologically savvy and scientific
in its approach to fighting crime (for example, the SMART Policing
Initiative, COMPSTAT, and problem oriented approaches such as
Project Safe Neighborhoods) in a time when governments are faced
with austerity, it is important to reconsider how policing got to
the point it is so that, as police and governments move forward,
constitutional guarantees are protected, communication with
citizens remains viable and salient, and crime prevention becomes
an empirical reality rather than a pipe-dream.
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