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"Introduction to policing" Table Of Contents:

• 1- pt. I. Foundations of policing
• 2- 1. Policing in America
• 3- Brief overview of the roles and functions of police in society
• 4- The concept of police
• 5- Size and scope of the Law Enforcement sector
• 6- Levels of policing
• 7- State Police
• 8- Special Jurisdiction Police
• 9- Sheriffs and Deputy Sheriffs
• 10- Auxiliary/Reserve/Special Police
• 11- Conservation Police Officers, Game Wardens
• 12- Tribal Police Officers
• 13- 2. A brief history of police in the United States
• 14- Evolution of American policing : an overview
• 15- Early history of policing
• 16- The Political Era
• 17- The Reform Era
• 18- Policing in the 1960s and 1970s
• 19- The Community Policing/Problem Solving Era (1980-Early 21st Century)
• 20- Areal Policing
• 21- Reassurance Policing
• 22- Intelligence-Led or Intelligence-Based Policing
• 23- Terrorism-Oriented Policing
• 24- Diversity in police services
• 25- 3. Police organization and administration : an overview
• 26- Organizational structures
• 27- Police hierarchy and the pyramid
• 28- The paramilitary structure
• 29- Functional design
• 30- Operations Division
• 31- Patrol
• 32- Investigations
• 33- Administrative or Staff Services Division
• 34- Place design
• 35- Time design
• 36- Future organizational designs
• 37- Police organizations in context
• 38- Change in police organizations
• 39- Police leadership
• 40- Police chiefs
• 41- Police Unions, professionalism, and accreditation
• 42- Police Unions and collective bargaining
• 43- Police professionalism
• 44- Police Unions and professionalism
• 45- Accreditation.
• 46- pt. II. Police operations
• 47- 4. Recruitment and selection of police officers
• 48- Recruitment and selection
• 49- Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action
• 50- Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• 51- Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA)
• 52- The Americans With Disabilities Act
• 53- Entry-level recruitment and selection
• 54- Status tests
• 55- Physical tests
• 56- Mental tests
• 57- Psychological tests
• 58- Tests of morality
• 59- Background investigations
• 60- Tests of ability to communicate
• 61- Supervisory recruitment and selection
• 62- Assessment centers
• 63- Recruitment and selection of police chiefs
• 64- 5. Police training and education
• 65- Police training
• 66- Types of training
• 67- Basic recruit training
• 68- Field training
• 69- In-service training
• 70- Training and police leaders
• 71- Training effectiveness
• 72- Purposes of training
• 73- Who should conduct police training?
• 74- Police education
• 75- Police educational requirements
• 76- College education and police performance
• 77- Higher education and the police : a continuing controversy
• 78- 6. Police work : operations and functions
• 79- Basic police functions
• 80- Order maintenance
• 81- Investigations and Forensic Science
• 82- Styles of policing
• 83- Patrol strength and allocation
• 84- Types of patrol
• 85- Patrol innovations
• 86- Evaluation of police performance
• 87- Police and the media
• 88- Media relations programs
• 89- 7. Contemporary strategies in policing
• 90- Community policing
• 91- The LEMAS Survey
• 92- Problem-oriented policing and COP
• 93- Research on community and problem-oriented policing
• 94- Criticisms of community policing
• 95- Changes and innovations in policing strategies
• 96- Intelligence-led policing
• 97- Situational crime prevention
• 98- Hot-spot policing
• 99- Directed patrol
• 100- Differential response policing
• 101- Saturation patrol and crackdowns
• 102- Third-party policing
• 103- Evidence-based policing
• 104- Pulling levers policing
• 105- Broken windows policing
• 106- CompStat
• 107- Incident Command Systems
• 108- Dual career ladder
• 109- Procedural Justice policing.
• 110- pt. III. Police conduct
• 111- 8. The police culture
• 112- The police subculture
• 113- Danger, authority, and efficiency
• 114- The police personality : myth or reality?
• 115- Stresses and strains of police work
• 116- The personal costs of police work
• 117- Task demands
• 118- Role demands
• 119- Role ambiguity
• 120- Interpersonal demands
• 121- Physical demands
• 122- Forms of police stress
• 123- Stages of stress
• 124- Burnout
• 125- Stress and police families
• 126- Police shootings and critical incidents as a source of stress
• 127- Attempts to combat police stress
• 128- Dealing with stress in police organizations
• 129- 9. Law, court decisions, and the police
• 130- The First Amendment
• 131- The Second Amendment
• 132- The Fourth Amendment
• 133- Probable Cause and Reasonableness
• 134- Searches and seizures with and without a warrant
• 135- Police stops
• 136- Police searches incident to arrest
• 137- Consent searches
• 138- The Fifth Amendment
• 139- The Fourteenth Amendment
• 140- The Exclusionary Rule
• 141- Police use of force
• 142- The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, and terrorism
• 143- 10. Discretion, ethics, and accountability in policing
• 144- Police discretion
• 145- Biased enforcement and racial profiling
• 146- Controlling discretion and encouraging ethical behavior
• 147- Commitment to the importance of ethical decision making
• 148- Improved hiring practices
• 149- Elimination of quotas
• 150- Intolerance of malfeasance
• 151- In-car video cameras
• 152- Positive media relations
• 153- Ethics in policing
• 154- Police accountability
• 155- Professionalism and the police
• 156- ch. 11. Police misconduct
• 157- The background of police misconduct
• 158- Types of misconduct
• 159- Corruption of authority
• 160- Kickbacks
• 161- Shakedowns
• 162- Bribery
• 163- Opportunistic theft
• 164- Protection of illegal activities
• 165- Causes and consequences of police misconduct
• 166- Nonfeasance
• 167- Drug-related corruption
• 168- Noble Cause corruption
• 169- Physical and emotional abuse
• 170- Emotional abuse and psychological harassment by police officers
• 171- Excessive use of force
• 172- Misconduct: management and administrative issues
• 173- Correcting and preventing misconduct.
• 174- pt. IV. Contemporary issues in policing
• 175- 12. Policing in a multicultural setting
• 176- Policing in a multicultural and multiethnic society
• 177- Police-community relations
• 178- Human relations in policing
• 179- Police
• 180- Minority encounters
• 181- Police public relations
• 182- Citizen complaints
• 183- Police-media relations
• 184- The police and public in multicultural relations
• 185- Cultural diversity and awareness training
• 186- Police responsiveness and accountability
• 187- The role of community members in multicultural relations
• 188- Women and minorities in policing
• 189- Women in policing
• 190- Policewomen as viewed by the public, their supervisors, and male officers
• 191- Factors affecting the performance of policewomen
• 192- Recruiting female officers
• 193- Minority police officers
• 194- Black police officers
• 195- Hispanic police officers
• 196- Asian police officers
• 197- Gay and lesbian police officers
• 198- Recruiting and retaining minorities as police officers
• 199- 13. Technology and the police
• 200- Computers
• 201- Video cameras : safety and accountability
• 202- Eavesdropping technology
• 203- Computers and cameras
• 204- drones
• 205- Crime mapping and CompStat
• 206- Cell phones/smart phones
• 207- Fingerprints, DNA, and other biological identifiers
• 208- Police use of speed detection devices or systems
• 209- Body armor and weapons
• 210- Police weapons
• 211- 14. Terrorism, Homeland Security, and global issues
• 212- Transnational crime
• 213- Organized crime
• 214- White-collar crime
• 215- Terrorism
• 216- Homeland Security and the police response
• 217- Department of Homeland Security
• 218- The USA Patriot Act
• 219- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Statute
• 220- First Responder preparedness and the role of the public
• 221- 15. Private and contract police
• 222- History and background
• 223- The development of the Modern Security Era
• 224- Security today
• 225- Terrorism and modern private security operations
• 226- Private and contract security personnel
• 227- Private detectives and investigators
• 228- Security guards and gaming surveillance officers
• 229- Licensure
• 230- Employment
• 231- Executive protection services
• 232- Public police and private security.
• 233- pt. V. Looking ahead
• 234- 16. The future of policing in America
• 235- The changing police role
• 236- Research and planning as police functions
• 237- Changing the police image
• 238- Community and problem-oriented
• 239- Civilianization
• 240- Accreditation
• 241- Lateral Entry
• 242- Training
• 243- Education
• 244- Police leadership
• 245- Private and contract security personnel
• 246- Technological changes in policing
• 247- Clarifying the police role
• 248- Predictive policing
• 249- The role of community policing
• 250- Intelligence-led policing and terrorism
• 251- Terrorism laws.
• 252- Note continued.

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