Police in America

• The new edition is available as a digital option through SAGE Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including video—all designed to enable students to better prepare for class. Learn more.
• Updated figures and statistics keep readers up to date on the latest developments in the field.
• New coverage of crucial topics in policing includes police-citizen contacts, race and implicit bias, mental illness and crisis intervention teams, and perceptions of police honesty and ethics.
• New developments in police technology includes body-worn cameras (BWCs), CCTV and directed patrol, secondary transfer of DNA, video as evidence, body armor, robots and drones, and law enforcement use of social media.
• New research questions discussed include the impacts of the media and citizens’ attitudes toward the police and how male and female college students perceive a police career.

KEY FEATURES:

• Video available with SAGE Vantage boosts comprehension and brings concepts to life.
  • Criminal Justice in Practice Videos feature animated, decision-making scenarios that challenge students to explore how they would respond to real-world situations faced by criminal justice professionals. 
  • Career Videos feature interviews with professional law enforcement discussing their day-to-day work and current issues in policing.
  • SAGE News Clips feature relevant news footage to help students apply knowledge to current events. 
• Chapter-opening learning objectives identify what students should be able to do after reading the chapter.
• "Fact or Fiction" sections at the beginning of chapters help students confront misconceptions about policing and assess their knowledge about forthcoming chapter content; accompanying answers appear at the end of chapters.
• “Good Policing” sections offers examples of police programs, policies, and issues that relate to effective, equitable, and ethical policing to highlight the importance of being a good police officer.
• “A Question of Ethics” callouts present ethical dilemmas that prompt students to think critically about a particular issue in policing.
• “Police Spotlights” offer real-world examples to help frame chapter content.
• “A Question to Consider” callouts pose questions to help students stop and consider the implications of the content for them and the field as a whole.
• “Technology on the Job” sections examine technology used on the job by the police to familiarize students with key technological advances in policing. 
• "A Research Question" sections feature a particularly interesting and significant research study relevant to the topic of each chapter so that students can draw evidence-based conclusions about what works in policing.
• "Main Points", key terms, and questions at the end of chapters allow students to review the material covered to reinforce learning.