Publisher's Synopsis
For one-semester courses in Police/Community Relations, Police and Society, Policing within American Society, or Issues in Policing in two- and four-year or proprietary schools.
The sixth edition of this overview of police-community relations continues the theme that citizen participation is critical to the effectiveness of the criminal justice system. It focuses on the importance of and strategies for positive interaction which affect crime control in America today. It addresses the internal and external communities served by the police and discusses past, present, and future practices that can create and sustain meaningful and successful police-community relations.
