Charles M. Katz

Policing Gangs in America (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today. The focus of this 2006 book is on the gang unit officers themselves and the environment in which they work. A discussion of research, statistical facts, theory, and policy with regard to gangs, gang members, and gang activity is used as a backdrop. The book is broadly focused on describing how gang units respond to community gang problems, and answers such questions as: why do police agencies organize their responses to gangs in certain ways? Who are the people who elect to police gangs? How do they make sense of gang members - individuals who spark fear in most citizens? What are their jobs really like? What characterizes their working environment? How do their responses to the gang problem fit with other policing strategies, such as community policing?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511133848
• Artikelnr.: 38198960

Autorenporträt

Dr Charles Katz received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is currently an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Arizona State University. Dr Katz has co-authored or co-edited two previous books and has been published in several scholarly journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Crime and Delinquency. Dr Katz has conducted research in over 20 police agencies across the United States as well as several state and federal agencies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Studying the police response to gangs
2. Setting and methods
3. Historical analysis of gangs and gang control
4. Scope and nature of the current gang problem
5. Form, function, and management of the police gang unit
6. The gang unit officer
7. On the job
8. Policing gangs in a time of community policing
9. Conclusion and implications
References.