Critical Issues in Police Training Review

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(More customer reviews)Despite being a few years old, this is one of the best books on police training ever written. The author combines a solid academic perspective with a practitioner viewpoint. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in police training. The book provides a foundation for police training in a variety of environments.

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For Police Training, Police Administration and Organization, Police Management, and Issues in Policing courses.This is the first comprehensive text written that specifically deals with the complexity and ethical issues associated with the problems of police training. It provides an analysis of the process of training, from the historical and conceptual perspective with an emphasis on the steps that need to be taken to improve every stage of police training.

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The Police: An Introduction (4th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)The book was very interesting I learned a lot from this book. I found out that the police can file a law suit against the party that has filed one against them.

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This book explores the principles of policing and introduces readers to the history, administration, and day-to-day practices of the police in the United States. Offering a balanced perspective, it providesreaders with the basic framework for understanding contemporary police issues and discusses the myths and preconceptions commonly associated with the profession. This edition includes a new chapter on police culture, a new chapter on police liability, and information on how police work interfaces with forensic science and modern technology.

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Police Technology Review

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(More customer reviews)I recently taught a police technology course at a local community college using Raymond Foster's Police Technology book as the base reference for the course and then puncuated the book will information and exercises from the accompanyinig website. Oustanding! The website is very informative, current and relevant. Several of the practicing law enforement personnel including senior supervisors and managers had their eyes opened to the technology available to them now ane the future potential for the technology to improve the service they provide their communities, understand contemporary issues in law enforcement and may compelling arguements to their respective governing counsels for funding and technology initiatives. Great book - understood and applied by students at all levels of experince.
Mike Kelley
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Criminal Justice Professor

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For Computers in Criminal Justice, Police Technology, Introductory Cybercrime and Introductory Crime Analysis courses as well as courses in Management of Public Information Systems. The only book of its kind available today, Police Technology is an up-to-date, practical examination of information technology in law enforcement. Through the lens of common criminal justice themes such as community policing, fragmentation, and other criminological theories, it tackles the broad field of information technology systematically--it starts with a basic introduction to computers, explores police communications technology, and presents cutting-edge strategic and tactical technology used by police to predict, investigate and prevent crime.

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Police Leadership Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is an excellent resource for anyone studying Leadership Theory at the Masters or Doctorate level. Trait Theory, Path Goal, Contingency Theory, Situational Leadership, Transactional Theory, Transformational Leadership and other Style Theories are analyzed in relation to current police chiefs throughout the United States. Serious students in the Criminal Justice fields looking for a current work applying academic theories to well known police leaders will not be disappointed.

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Police Leadership explores leadership theories through the real life experiences of well known police chiefs. Police Leadership provides a template for police leaders on how to look at a given situation, adopt an informed perspective and make the right leadership decision. This book provides a comprehensive examination of a broad range of organizational leadership theories–including team theory, leader-member exchange theory, transformational theory, style theory, situational theory, contingency theory and path-goal theory. Topics focus on ethics and integrity, demonstrating the central importance to leadership of ethics and integrity. For police leaders–from street-level officers to the highest ranking police chiefs.

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