Customer Reviews

Police and the Community, The (7th Edition)

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From my personal Course Evaluation - "The chosen course text, in its entirety leaves the reader EVERYTHING to be desired. The text reads like a medical thesis. Each chapter is chock-full of redundancy. The author has painstakingly gone over each and every paragraph with a thesaurus to remove any flow of thought in order to come across as overly-educated. Not a single thought process is easily defined by the reader, nor can any information be disseminated from this text to correlate with exams or class discussion. The text is also full of spelling errors and missing pages. I completely recommend a rethinking of course material for future students."

How and why this book was chosen for my course is unimaginable. There are missing pages and the print is slanted on many other pages. The worst is the content it is very hard to keep up with the author, who is biased and consistently throws their own opinion around in the book. The book primarily contains philosophy and theory which can range from practical to the almost comical. Book publisher should fire the editor and only offer this book to grad schools.

The Police and the Community is the most comprehensive book on the market looking at community policing and its wide-ranging impact. It goes beyond a simple description of what community policing is. Rather, it provides a comprehensive view with reference to a wide range of social concerns and the police role and response. Interesting topics are included ranging from racism to police brutality to international perspectives.