Police Behavior, Hiring, and Crime Fighting
This edited collection by internationally recognized authors provides essays on police behavior in the categories of police administration, police operations, and combating specific crimes. Individual chapters strike at critical issues for police today, such as maintaining the well-being of officers, handling stress, hiring practices, child sexual exploitation, gunrunning, crime prevention strategies, police legitimacy, and much more.
Understanding how police are hired and behave is a way of understanding different governments around the world. The book will cover the practices of countries as diverse as China, Germany, India, Japan, Turkey, South Africa, the United States, and others. Readers will be exposed to aspects of police that are rarely, if ever, explored.
The book is intended for a wide range of audiences, including law enforcement and community leaders and students of criminal justice.
John A. Eterno received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany. He is a professor, associate dean, and director of graduate studies in criminal justice at Molloy College and a retired captain from the New York Police Department. Molloy College has recognized his accomplishments with specific awards in various areas, including research/publication, teaching, and service. He has penned numerous books, book chapters, articles, and editorials on various topics in policing. Some examples of his most recent publications: an op-ed in the New York Times titled Policing by the Numbers; peer-reviewed articles in outlets such as Justice Quarterly, Public Administration Review, and Police Practice and Research; and books including The Crime Numbers Game: Management by Manipulation (with Eli B. Silverman), The New York City Police Department: The Impact of Its Policies and Practices, and The Detectives Handbook (with Cliff Roberson).
Ben Stickle, Ph.D., is an associate professor of criminal justice administration at Middle Tennessee State University and has been teaching criminal justice courses since 2010. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Cedarville University and a Masters of Science and Doctor of Philosophy in justice administration from the University of Louisville. His research interests include policing, property crime, and emerging crime types (package theft and metal theft), focusing on crime prevention, environmental crime, rational choice, and qualitative methods. Stickle has published in peer-reviewed journals such as the American Journal of Criminal Justice, Police Practice and Research, Criminal Justice Policy Review, and Policing: An International Journal, and is the author of Metal Scrappers and Thieves: Scavenging for Survival and Profit. He frequently engages in practitioner partnerships with over 20 years experience in the criminal justice field and currently serves as a program evaluator for several Bureau of Justice Assistance grants focused on justice-mental health responses, offender reentry, and human trafficking.
Diana Scharff Peterson, Ph.D., has nearly 20 years of experience in higher education, teaching in the areas of research methods; comparative criminal justice systems; race, gender, class, and crime; statistics; criminology; sociology; and drugs and behavior at seven different institutions of higher education. Scharff Peterson has been the chairperson of three different criminal justice programs over the past 15 years and has published in the areas of criminal justice, social work, higher education, sociology, business, and management. Her research interests include issues in policing (training and education) and community policing, assessment and leadership in higher education, family violence, and evaluation research and program development. She was Professor of Criminology and Graduate Program Director at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. She has published more than 30 articles in areas of criminal justice, sociology, social work, business management, and higher education and is the liaison and representative for the International Police Executive Symposium (consultative status) for quarterly annual meetings at the United Nations in New York City, Geneva, and Vienna, including the Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. She formerly served as the managing editor of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal.
Dilip K. Das, Ph.D., is the president, International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), and editor-in-chief, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. After receiving his Masters degree in English literature, Das joined the Indian Police Service, an elite national service. After 14 years in the service as a police executive, including chief of police, he moved to the USA in 1979, where he achieved another Masters degree in criminal justice, as well as a doctorate in the same discipline. Das has authored, edited, and co-edited more than 40 books and numerous articles. He is the series editor of Advances in Police Theory and Practice and International Police Executive Symposium Co-Publications. He has traveled extensively throughout the world in comparative police research; as a visiting professor at various universities, including organizing annual conferences of the IPES; and as a human rights consultant to the United Nations. Das has received several faculty excellence awards and was a distinguished faculty lecturer.
Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series
Series Editor: Dilip K. Das
Cold Cases: Evaluation Models with Follow-Up Strategies for Investigators,
Second Edition
James M. Adcock and Sarah L. Stein
Crime Linkage: Theory, Research, and Practice
Jessica Woodhams and Craig Bennell
Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting: Context, Challenges, and Strategies
Sedat Mulayim, Miranda Lai, and Caroline Norma
Policing White-Collar Crime: Characteristics of White-Collar Criminals
Petter Gottschalk
Honor-Based Violence: Policing and Prevention
Karl Anton Roberts, Gerry Campbell, and Glen Lloyd
Policing and the Mentally Ill: International Perspectives
Duncan Chappell
Security Governance, Policing, and Local Capacity
Jan Froestad and Clifford Shearing
Police Performance Appraisals: A Comparative Perspective
Serdar Kenan Gul and Paul OConnell
Policing in France
Jacques de Maillard and Wesley G. Skogan
Women in Policing around the World: Doing Gender and Policing in a Gendered Organization
Venessa Garcia
Police Behavior, Hiring, and Crime Fighting: An International View
Edited by John A. Eterno, Ben Stickle, Diana Scharff Peterson, and Dilip K. Das
