Violence and the Police: A Sociological Study of Law, Custom, and Morality

by William Westley

Book Overview

Who are the police? What jobs do they perform? Why do they behave as they do? Twenty years ago William Westley answered these questions by making a study of the municipal police force in a midwestern city, which has proved to be one of the pioneering works in the field. In it he takes a deep look at the nature of police activities ("dirty work," training, traffic, patrol, detective), how the police are organized and function, the kind of men they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262730278
• ISBN13: 9780262730273
• Release Date: August 1971
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.