Law Enforcement in the 21st Century

Dr. Heath Grant, formerly the Research Director at the Police Executive Research Forum, has more than twenty years of experience offering training and technical assistance to law enforcement agencies internationally. This includes his recent work with the Bangladesh National Police. He has also helped to develop effective prevention programs internationally for USAID and other organizations.   Dr. Karen Terry is an internationally known expert in sexual offending, including the practical law enforcement responses to the challenges of this difficult type of offense. Most recently, she served as the PI on a major study commissioned by the Catholic Church to document patterns in sexual offending by Catholic clergy, as well as the relationship between offending and both situational and policy dynamics.

• Part 1 Law Enforcement in the Criminal Justice System 1 Chapter 1 Law Enforcement in a Democratic Society 1 Chapter 2 Origins and Development of Law Enforcement 28 Chapter 3 Law Enforcement and the Law 57 Part 2 Law Enforcement Organizations–Operations and Conduct 81 Chapter 4 Policing Functions and Units 81 Chapter 5 Policing Discretion and Behavior 105 Chapter 6 Patrol and Traffic 130 Chapter 7 Search and Seizure, Arrest, and Interrogation 150 Chapter 8 Investigation and Evidence Collection 171 Chapter 9 Policing the Police 192 Part 3 Policing in the Twenty-First Century 212 Chapter 10 Policing Multicultural Communities 212 Chapter 11 Community Policing and Problem Solving 230 Chapter 12 Advances in Policing: New Technologies for Crime Analysis 255 Chapter 13 Standards for Police Recruitment 279 Glossary 299 Index 315