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Deeply researched, but also vibrantly and accessibly written, the end of policing is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the dire state of policing today. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Jennifer lynch, an attorney at electronic frontier foundation, says the practice is. In each chapter of issues and controversies in policing today, author johnny nhan explores a provocative issue sure to spark classroom discussion. Alex vitale shows compellingly that as long as we ask the police to shore up a fundamentally unequal and dysfunctional social order, superficial reforms wont do much to help. Stroud, an investigative journalist with an eye for detail, begins the book with a. Exam cram, won the 2012 prose award for best eproduct in social sciences from the association of american publishers video links provide additional coverage of topics discussed in the text. Jennifer bachner, a johns hopkins professor, says predictive policing helps reduce crime and police profiling. Indeed, professional crime fightingenjoys wide public support as the basic strategy of policing precisely because it. Opinion the high cost of policing the new york times. Predictive policing is one of the newer ways law enforcement is harnessing the power of technology to fight crime. Policing in america, eighth edition, provides a thorough analysis of the key issues in policing today, and offers an issuesoriented discussion focusing on critical concerns such as personnel systems, organization and management, operations, discretion, use of force, culture and behavior, ethics and deviance, civil liability, and police. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read.
Advances in technology, psychology, and forensic science have made the act and art of policing look drastically different than it did in 1893 and 1953 and even 1983. Predictive policing is a broad term used for techniques used by law enforcement to identify potential criminal activity. Does predictive policing lead to more police in black. A misguided belief in the objectivity and neutrality of predictive technologies permeates every step of the process from the software developers. However, approaches based on the centrality of force to policing need to account for the recourse that other institutions have to physical force.
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