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Title: Danger, Duty & Disillusion: The Worldview of Los Angeles Police Officers by Joan C. Barker ISBN: 1-57766-041-2 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $15.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: We need a fair balance of theory and practice...
Comment: Sociologic insights are important in understanding the nature of policing and how officers are viewed. This book is a good resource for criminal justice students and scholars. Women in policing face worldwide stereotypes in addition to the day-to-day struggles of working within our criminal justice system. Fortunately for society, a growing number are succeeding - even in the face of a still discriminatory system. The more we understand how society views officers, men and women - and the more we understand their own struggles and disappointments - the more we can do to create a stronger and better system.
Rating: 5
Summary: LAPD
Comment: I have been a police officer in Northern California for 15 years. I started out young and idealistic. Throughout my career I have gone through different stages and I have seen other officers go through these stages. I was given this book by a coworker and I read it on my weekend off. I totally saw myself in this book and others I work with and others who are now gone. The one chapter hitting the wall was the most interesting because that period was the most difficult for me in my career and like in the book I sought outside resources to save myself, mainly my family, promotion and finishing my college education. If I had stayed in that rut of hitting the wall I most likely would have quit the job all together because i was burned out.
I encourage anyone who really wants to understand the job and what it can do over a period of time to read this book and those others can read it to think what is going on in the mind of that officer as you see him pulling someone over in the middle of the nite.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant exploration of the world of the LAPD
Comment: Joan Barker has taken her anthropologist eye and given us all a peek into the world of the Los Angeles Police Department. For those of us who are non-professionals but curious about the world we inhabit, this book satisfies that curiosity. I, for one, have often wondered about the true nature of the police department. Who are the men and women doing this difficult, and often thankless, job? Read this worldview of the LAPD and find out. This ethnography is a fascinating and scholarly work.
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Title: The Killing Season : A Summer Inside an LAPD Homicide Division by Miles Corwin ISBN: 0449002918 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 28 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Force Under Pressure: How Cops Live and Why They Die by Lawrence Blum, Laurence Blum ISBN: 1930051123 Publisher: Lantern Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Working: Sociological Perspectives (2nd Edition) by Robert A. Rothman ISBN: 0136218148 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 23 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $73.00 |
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Title: Official Negligence : How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD by Lou Cannon ISBN: 0813337259 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department by Steve Herbert ISBN: 0816628653 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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