Varieties of police behavior (Record no. 4882)
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| fixed length control field | 02695nam a2200229Ia 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | RRU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20230911170848.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 210901s1996 ||||||||| ||||||| 0|eng|d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780674932111 |
| Printed Price | Rs. 2190.00 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | RRU |
| Language of cataloging | English |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Class No. | 363.2320973 |
| Item number | WIL |
| 100 ## - FIRST AUTHOR (IF A PERSON) | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 6668 |
| Name of author | Wilson James Q |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Varieties of police behavior |
| Statement of responsibility | James Q Wilson |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harvard University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1996 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London, England |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| No. of pages | 309p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The patrolman has the most difficult, complex, and least understood task in the police department. Much less is known of him than of his better publicized colleague, the detective. In this important and timely book, James Q. Wilson describes the patrolman and the problems he faces that arise out of constraints imposed by law, politics, public opinion, and the expectations of superiors. The study considers how the uniformed officer in eight communities deals with such common offenses as assault, theft, drunkenness, vice, traffic, and disorderly conduct. Six of the communities are in New York State: Albany, Amsterdam, Brighton, Nassau County, Newburgh, and Syracuse. The others are Highland Park, Illinois, and Oakland, California. Enforcing laws dealing with common offenses is especially difficult because it raises the question of administrative discretion. Murder, in the eyes of the police, is unambiguously wrong, and murderers are accordingly arrested; but in cases such as street-corner scuffles or speeding motorists, the patrolman must decide whether to intervene (should the scuffle be stopped? should the motorist be pulled over?) and, if he does, just how to intervene (by arrest? a warning? an interrogation?). In most large organizations, the lowest-ranking members perform the more routinized tasks and the means of accomplishing these tasks are decided by superiors, but in a police department the lowest-ranking officer--the patrolman--is almost solely responsible for enforcing those laws which are the least precise, the most ambiguous. Three ways or "styles" of policing--the watchman, the legalistic, and the service styles--are analyzed and their relation to local politics is explored. In the final chapter, Mr. Wilson discusses if and how the patrolman's behavior can be changed and examines some current proposals for reorganizing police departments. He observes that the ability of the patrolman to do his job well may determine our success in managing social conflict and our prospects for maintaining a proper balance between liberty and order. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Subject heading | Police Administration |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Subject heading | United States |
| 9 (RLIN) | 608 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Subject heading | Police administration |
| 9 (RLIN) | 6238 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan (e.g. reference copy) | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Inventory number | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Accession No | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Item MRP (printed price) | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Rashtriya Raksha University | Rashtriya Raksha University | 08/01/2020 | 07739 | 1 | 363.2320973 WIL | 7739 | 26/12/2022 | 21/12/2022 | 2190.00 | 02/09/2021 | Books |