Street Cop by George Klein - 9781032192765

Taylor & Francis

Street CopPolicing in Context\nAuthor(s): George Klein\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032192765, 978-1032192765\nSynopsis\nThis book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for todays law enforcement officers. Author George C. Klein, sociologist and former police officer, explores the characteristics of policing in a suburb outside of large Midwestern city in the United States. As a participant-observation fieldworker, he functioned as an ethnographic researcher, recording with a sociological eye the \""real world\"" tasks of policing, including the ordinary as well as the more remarkable aspects of day-to-day law enforcement. He approaches the data with three levels of analysis, looking at embedded issues in policing, such as discretion, danger, corruption, cynicism, race, and class; a mid-range analysis that examines police work as an ex.