Contemporary Policing: Personnel, Issues & Trends

by M.L. Dantzker

Contemporary Personnel, Issues, & Trends is an edited volume that provides students with a complete picture of current policing issues. The collection draws on the ideas of several well known academics and scholars. Arranged thematically, this text fully covers the standard topics in the field, including stress, education and training, professional ethics, community policing, and use of force. It then goes a step further than traditional texts to cover current topics such as women in policing, minority groups, criminal analysis, and technological changes. The chapters are concise, clearly written and combine rich frameworks with illustrations drawn from real experience.

M. L. Dantzker is an associate professor of Political Science at Georgia Southern University teaching in the Justice Studies Program, specializing in policing. He received his Ph.D. in Administration from the University of Texas-Arlington. Prior to entering academia full-time, Dr. Dantzker was a police officer in Indiana and in Texas. He has researched, consulted, and published in the areas of police stress, police job satisfaction, educational issues, criminal justice statistics, and police chief requirements.

In-depth discussion of today's most important policing topics
Comprehensive coverage of standard law enforcement issues
Compilation of ideas from several well-known academics and scholars

Paperback

First published February 27, 1997

About the author

Mark L. Dantzker