PEARSON EDUCATION Police Administration: Structures, Processes, and Behavior

Product Description This text is suitable for courses in Police Administration, Management, and Supervision. Thoroughly researched, the fifth edition comprehensively covers the field of police administration and provides a carefully balanced treatment of its procedural, structural, and behavioral aspects. New to this fifth edition is updated material on politics and police administration, communication, human resource management and stress. There is a new chapter on community policing. From the Back Cover Police Administration, now in its successful fifth edition, brings the challenges and processes of police work to students in fresher and more vivid detail than ever before. With updates in all chapters, this important text clearly explains the procedures, politics, and human relations issues that law enforcement officers must understand in order to succeed. This book is also important because it shows young or aspiring police officers how police departments should be administered, paving the way for them to achieve important advancements and promotions. Police Administration, Fifth Edition is a complete look at America's police forces―from the small-town PD to the FBI. It is comprehensive, and it covers the police department from all necessary angles, giving the reader the full understanding they need to succeed in law enforcement.