Police in America - Interactive eBook
- Steven Gerard Brandl - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
STUDENTS: Still need to purchase your eBook access code?
- For instant access, get your copy of this interactive eBook at vitalsource.com.
- Prefer a shipped option? Click on the "BUY NOW" button on this page and select the “Slim Pack” (shipped access code) version from the drop-down menu. Your Interactive eBook access code will be shipped to the address you indicate in your order form. Please note: shipping fees apply. You will have 180 days of access with this Slim Pack option.
INSTRUCTORS: Bundle and save!
- Order using bundle ISBN 978-1-0718-1327-0 (Interactive eBook + Loose-leaf print version) and your students get this interactive eBook at no additional cost.
- Note: Instant access is not available with Interactive eBook + print bundles. All bundles will ship with the print version and corresponding interactive eBook 180-day rental access code information (slim pack).
Need a Personalized Demo? Contact your sales representative today.
This dynamic, mobile-friendly Interactive eBook version of Police in America, Second Edition goes way beyond highlighting and note-taking, giving you access to SAGE Premium Video—curated specifically for this text. Simply click on icons in the eBook to experience a broad array of multimedia features, including:
- VIDEO: Boost learning and bolster analysis with SAGE Premium Video. Recapping the fundamentals in every chapter, each video activity is paired with chapter learning objectives and tied to assessment via SAGE Coursepacks.
- OFFLINE READING: Using the VitalSource Bookshelf® platform, download your book to a personal computer and read it offline.
- SOCIAL SHARING AND FOLLOWING: Share notes and highlights with instructors and classmates who are using the same eBook, and “follow” friends and instructors as they make their own notes and highlights.
- ONLINE CONTENT: Access more online content via links to important data, relevant background, and profiles that enrich key concepts in the text.
Chapter 1
· New information on police-citizen contacts
· New information on body-worn cameras (BWCs)
· New information on police-citizen cooperation (and lack thereof) as a challenge of policing
· New “A Research Question” (media and citizens’ attitudes toward the police)
Chapter 2
· New information on women and people of color police officers
· New “Good Policing” (good policing changes over time)
· New/revised “A Research Question” (current state of police research)
· New information about changes in policing during the community problem-solving era
Chapter 3
· New “Police Spotlight” (police officer salaries and consequences)
· New “Good Policing” (police as warriors vs. guardians)
Chapter 4
· New “Police Spotlight” (“Scoop and Run” in the Philadelphia PD, nontraditional police task)
· New “Good Policing” (the need for new measures of police effectiveness)
· New section on police responding to people in need, people with mental illness, crisis intervention teams)
· New section on police use of Narcan
Chapter 5
· New “Police Spotlight” (San Diego PD recruitment efforts)
· New information on police salaries
· New “Research Question” (how male and female college students perceive a police career)
· New information about diversity of police officers
· New “Good Policing” (Tulsa PD recruit training)
Chapter 6
· New information on foot patrol
· New “A Research Question” (CCTV and directed patrol)
· New information on traffic stops
· New information on stop, question, and frisk
Chapter 7
· New “Police Spotlight” (ancestry DNA and the Golden State Killer)
· Moved material on “proof” to Chapter 9
· New “A Research Question” (secondary transfer of DNA)
· New information on DNA and DNA analysis
· New information as video as evidence
Chapter 8
· New information on BWCs
· New information/section on race and implicit bias
· New information on de-policing and Ferguson Effect
· New “A Research Question” (BWCs)
· New “Good Policing” (BWCs)
Chapter 9
· New discussion of proof and probable cause
· Many revised discussions to shorten the chapter
· New section on juveniles and the Miranda requirement
Chapter 10
· New “Police Spotlight” (dealing with event trauma)
· New “A Research Question” (shiftwork, fatigue, and gender)
· New information on body armor
Chapter 11
· New “Police Spotlight” (de-escalation)
· New “Good Policing” (transparency in police use of force)
· New information on police use of force
· New “A Research Question” (but still suicide by cop)
· New information on police use of robots and drones
· New reorganized section on the control of police use of force
· New information/sections on de-escalation, early intervention systems, BWCs
Chapter 12
· New “Police Spotlight” (still Denver PD police complaint mediation program
· New information on numerous chapter topics
· New information on perceptions of police honesty and ethics
Chapter 13
· Added many examples of community policing in various PDs
· New information on law enforcement use of social media
· New information on community policing vs. problem-oriented policing
· New “A Research Question” (procedural justice)
· Added many examples of problem-oriented policing (with a new diagram)
Chapter 14
· New “Police Spotlight” (smart policing in Chicago)
· New information on smart policing (its meaning changed since the 1e)
· New information to clarify various strategies discussed in the chapter, including how these strategies may be controversial
· New “Good Policing” (a problem-oriented approach to CompStat)
· New “A Research Question” (crime analysis)
Chapter 15
· Condensed discussion of terrorism
· New “Research Spotlight” (far-right extremism)
· New information about future of policing including militarization of the police
· New “Good Policing” (BWCs and accountability)
· New information on the future technologies of policing
