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Title: Police & Society by Roy R. Roberg, John P. Crank, Jack L. Kuykendall ISBN: 1-891487-17-5 Publisher: Roxbury Pub Co Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not a very helpful portrayal of cops, society and culture
Comment: I was in a class where this book was required by one of the authors. This was alright with me because I thought I was getting a good deal---the book and the author. I came to find out that this particular professor (author) has never been a cop! He talked about cops as if he knew the life of a cop, but he couldn't answer even simple questions about what it was really like, for 'police and society.' The book isn't very good because it's impossible to believe the word of professors who haven't 'been there' like most of us in the classroom.
Rating: 1
Summary: Adequate for an introductory course but not much more
Comment: While this book is an adequate general overview of the general topic "police and society," and appropriate for a high school class or a freshman-level college class, I find it is not very interesting beyond skimming the surface of what is surely a fascinating topic.
Other books (such as Vila and Morris, 1999, The Role of Police in American Society, just off the top of my head---and also the several books in the "Policing and Society" series) provide a much meatier, much more intriguing and substantial treatment of the topic.
Unless you know absolutely nothing about this topic and want to just know the general, most rudimentary basics, I'd suggest looking at other books written by seasoned law enforcement practitioners.
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Title: Corrections in America: An Introduction (9th Edition) by Harry E. Allen, Clifford E. Simonsen ISBN: 0130877263 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 14 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $90.00 |
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Title: A Primer on Crime and Delinquency Theory by Robert M. Bohm ISBN: 0534541585 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 18 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: Critical Issues in Policing: Contemporary Readings by Roger G. Dunham, Geoffrey P. Alpert ISBN: 157766177X Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: 20 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Criminology With Infotrac by Larry J. Siegel ISBN: 0534526543 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $92.95 |
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Title: Organized Crime in America by Dennis Jay Kenney, James O. Finckenauer ISBN: 0534247024 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 03 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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