The ambivalent force : perspectives on the police

Preface

1. The social and historical setting. The police in social and historical perspective / Abraham S. Blumberg and Arthur Niederhoffer

Task force report : the police / The President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice

The medieval commune and internal violence : police power and public safety in Siena, 1287-1355 / William M. Bowsky

2. Police role and career. The role of the police / Bruce J. Terris

Psychological consequences of the police role / Hans H. Toch

The psychological assessment of police candidates / Clifton Rhead, Arnold Abrams, Harry Trosman, and Philip Margolis

Emotional hazards of police work / Martin Symonds

Movie cops

romantic vs. real / James Q. Wilson

Generational and ethnic differences among career police officers / James Q. Wilson

Color line a key police problem / John Darnton

The Jewish patrolman / Arthur Niederhoffer

3. Police organization and control. Command, control, and charisma : reflections on police bureaucracy / David J. Bordua and Albert J. Reiss, Jr

Police policy formulation : a proposal for improving police performance / Herman Goldstein

The protection of the inept / William J. Goode

4. Police values and culture. Value conflicts in law enforcement / Jacob Chwast

The policeman / Jimmy Breslin

The contrast / Leslie Waller

What makes a policeman go wrong? / Mort Stern

Secrecy and the police / William A. Westley

A sketch of the policeman's working personality / Jerome H. Skolnick

Police who go to college / Bernard Locke and Alexander B. Smith

5. Police discretion. Police discretion : the ideal versus the real / Herman Goldstein

The differential selection of juvenile offenders for court appearance / Goldman, Nathan

Police discretion in emergency apprehension of mentally ill persons / Egon Bittner

Police violence : changing pattern / David Burnham

Police cynicism / Arthur Niederhoffer

6. Police and society. Policeman as philosopher, guide and friend / Elaine Cumming, Ian Cumming and Laura Edell

Cartoon / Jules Feiffer

Cartoon / Jules Feiffer

The precipitants and underlying conditions of race riots / Stanley Lieberson and Arnold R. Silverman

The riot participant / Commission on Civil Disorders

The revolt of the white lower and middle class / Peter Hamill

Police and the urban ghetto / Jerome H. Skolnick

7. Police and the legal system. Liberty and justice : fair play and fair trial / Leo Pfeffer

Police questioning of law-abiding citizens / Charles A. Reich

Stop and frisk / Roy Wilkins

Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968) / U.S. Supreme Court

Acquitting the de facto guilty : some "stop and frisk" problems / Ruth G. Weintraub and Harriet Pollack

Police surveillance of public toilets / Walter Ryland

Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)

Double standard / James Flora

Confessions and the court / Richard Ayres

The practice of law as confidence game : organizational cooptation of a profession / Abraham S. Blumberg

8. Critiques of the police. Police and their problems : a theory / James Q. Wilson

The case for the cop / Richard Dougherty

When the cops were not "handcuffed" / Yale Kamisar

Cops : same role, new tactics / Peter Henig and Randy Furst

Police brutality

answers to key questions / Albert J. Reiss, Jr

Universities and the police : force and freedom on the campus / Donald Goodman and Arthur Niederhoffer

Bibliography

Index