| Working the Street: Police Discretion and the Dilemmas of Reform Revised Edition Contributor(s): Brown, Michael K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0871541912 ISBN-13: 9780871541918 Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation OUR PRICE: $27.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Prostitution & Sex Trade - Law |
| Dewey: 363.232 |
| LCCN: 88-20951 |
| Series: Publications of Russell Sage Foundation |
| Physical Information: 392 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Now available in paperback, this provocative study examines the street-level decisions made by police, caught between a sometimes hostile community and a maze of departmental regulations. Probing the dynamics of three sample police departments, Brown reveals the factors that shape how officers wield their powers of discretion. Chief among these factors, he contends, is the highly bureaucratic organization of the modern police department. A new epilogue, prepared for this edition, focuses on the structure and operation of urban police forces in the 1980s. "Add this book to the short list of important analyses of the police at work....Places the difficult job of policing firmly within its political, organizational, and professional constraints...Worth reading and thinking about." --Crime & Delinquency "An excellent contribution...Adds significantly to our understanding of contemporary police." --Sociology "A critical analysis of policing as a social and political phenomenon....A major contribution." --Choice |