Street Cop: Policing in Context by Klein, George C. ISBN 9781000683639, 100068363X instant download

Street Cop: Policing in Context by Klein, George C. ISBN 9781000683639, 100068363X instant download

This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the U.S. and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for today’s law enforcement officers. The author, George C. Klein, sociologist, criminologist, and former police officer, explores the characteristics of policing in two suburbs outside of a large Midwestern city in the U.S. As a participant-observation fieldworker, he functioned as an ethnographic researcher, recording with a sociological eye, the “real world” tasks of policing, including the ordinary as well as the more remarkable aspects of day-to-day law enforcement. He approaches the data with three levels of analysis: looking at embedded issues in policing, such as discretion, danger, corruption, cynicism, race, and class; a mid-range analysis that examines police work as an example of street-level bureaucracy; and a global analysis assessing the entrenched roles of race, class, and demography in police work, as well as society, in the U.S. This book focuses on the need for police officers to solve social problems that other institutions in society are unwilling, or unable, to solve. It examines a myriad of issues, such as police socialization, the use of force by police officers, stress levels and suicide risk factors, disparate styles of policing, police militarization, de-escalation, and more. With compelling detail, the author helps the reader understand the turmoil regarding policing in the U.S. today. It is ideal for police professionals, as well as students and scholars of criminal justice, criminology, sociology, psychology, history, political science, and journalism.