Policing's Problems in the Twenty-First Century: Misconduct, Malfeasance, and Murder - Hardcover

by Tom Barker (Author)

This is a critical analysis of law enforcement misconduct, malfeasance, and murder as occupational forms of deviance and outlines the patterns of each and strategies for management and control.

Author Biography

Dr. Tom Barker is a former police officer, a police academy instructor, a college and university instructor, and a college dean. He is a past president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Studies. He has authored or coauthored seventeen books, including six that have gone into multiple editions--one, nine editions. Dr. Barker is considered a national and international expert in several areas: law-enforcement practices, including reform, and adult criminal gangs--street, prison, and outlaw motorcycle gangs. Since his retirement from college teaching in 2000, he has devoted his time to full-time writing and research.