Jeannine Bell, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

• Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Part I Maintaining Order versus Enforcing the Law: Lawful policing, Wesley G. Skogan and Tracey L. Meares; Watchman and community: myth and institutionalization in policing, John P. Crank. Part II The Fourth and Fifth Amendments 'On the Ground' - Search, Seizure and Interrogation: Street stops and broken windows: terry, race, and disorder in New York City, Jeffrey Fagan and Garth Davies; Inside the interrogation room, Richard A. Leo; Search warrants, motions to suppress and 'lost cases': the effects of the exclusionary rule in 7 jurisdictions, Craig D. Uchida and Timothy S. Bynum; The determinants of deadly force: a structural analysis of police violence, David Jacobs and Robert M. O'Brien . Part III Discretion in the Decision to Arrest: The police and nonenforcement of the law - part II, Wayne R. LaFave; Revisiting the decision to arrest: comparing beat and community officers, Kenneth J. Novak, James Frank, Brad W. Smith and Robin Shepard Engel; The helping hand of the law: police control of citizens on request, Stephen D. Mastrofski, Jeffrey B. Snipes, Roger B. Parks and Christopher D. Maxwell; Policing identities: cop decision making and the constitution of citizens, Trish Oberweis and Michael Mushino; Morality in law enforcement: chasing 'bad guys' with the Los Angeles police department, Steve Herbert; Demeanor or crime? The Midwest City police-citizen encounters study, Richard J. Lundman; The effect of different police enforcement policies on the control of prostitution, E. Nick Larsen Part IV Discretion, Race and Gender: How novice and experienced officers interpret wife assaults: normative and efficiency frames, Loretta J. Stalans and Mary A. Finn; Differential police treatment of male-on-female spousal violence, James J. Fyfe, David A. Klinger and Jeanne M. Flavin; Deciding when hate is a crime: the First Amendment, police detectives, and the identification of hate crime, Jeannine Bell; Examining the influence of d