Policing Gangs in America
Policing Gangs in America
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?
- Reports findings from the most extensive study of police gang units to date
- Analyzes the police response to gangs in the context of community policing
- Carefully codifies the types and levels of gang units/gang officers
Product details
March 2006Paperback
9780521616546
322 pages
229 × 152 × 18 mm
0.48kg
Available
Table of Contents
- 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.
