Policing Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods: The Miami Study and Findings for Law Enforcement in the United States

by Geoffrey P. Alpert and Roger G. Dunham

Book Overview

A fascinating and well-written book by an established researcher in the field. Alpert treats problems faced by police in rapidly changing multiethnic communities such as Miami-Dade County, the locus of the study. The focus on the relationship of informal and formal social control systems provides more insight into the vicissitudes of ethnic neighborhoods and their support of the police than might ever be gained from hours of Miami Vice...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031326290X
• ISBN13: 9780313262906
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"