SCHEDULE (Subject to Change)
B&B = Brandl & Barlow “The Police in America”
D&A = Dunham & Alpert “Critical Issues in Policing”
Reserves are available online at: socqrl.niu.edu/miller/courses/soci486/readings.html
Theme
Democracy &
Police Functions
Dates
Jan 16
Jan 18
Jan 23
Jan 25
Contemporary
History of Police
Jan 30
Feb 1
Field Operations:
Patrol &
Investigation
Feb 6
Feb 8
Feb 13
Feb 15
-D&A3 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2000, and LEMAS, 2000—Highlights (Reaves &
Hickman)
-B&B (p.47) Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement. (Chambliss)
-B&B (p. 237) The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment: A Summary Report. (Kelling, Pate, Dickman, & Brown)
-B&B (p. 256) Effects of Gun Seizures on Gun Violence: "Hot Spots" Patrol in Kansas City. (Sherman & Rogan)
-D&A29 Toward an Understanding of the Physical Hazards of Police Work (Brandl & Stroshine)
-B&B (p.275) The Criminal Investigation Process: A Summary Report. (Chaiken, Greenwood & Petersilia)
-B&B (p.300) The Relationship Between Evidence, Detective Effort, and the Disposition of Burglary and Robbery
Investigations. (Brandl & Frank)
Feb 22
Feb 27
Mar 1
-RESERVE3 Cops as Soldiers (Skolnick & Fyfe)
-D&A8 How Police Supervisory Styles Influence Patrol Officer Behavior (Engel)
-D&A10 Information Technology Innovations in Policing (Stroshine)
-D&A12 Compstat: An Analysis of an Emerging Police Managerial Paradigm (Walsh)
-RESERVE4 An Institutional Perspective of Policing (Crank & Langworthy)
Mar 6
Mar 8
-D&A20 Broken Windows (Wilson & Kelling)
-D&A21 "Broken Windows" and Fractured History: The Use and Misuse of History in Recent Police Patrol
-D&A22 Analysis (Walker) - Community Policing: Elements and Effects (Cordner)
-B&B (p.68) A Political Economy of Community Policing. (Barlow, & Barlow)
-B&B (p.353) Improving Policing: A Problem Oriented Approach (Goldstein)
-D&A23 Problem-Oriented Policing (Reitzel, N. Piquero, & A. Piquero)
-B&B (p. 326) Structural Change in Large Municipal Police Organizations During the Community Policing Era. (Maguire)
-B&B (p.387) Militarizing Mayberry and Beyond: Making Sense of American Paramilitary Policing. (Kraska & Cubellis)
EXAM 1 – Feb 20
Police
Organization
Community Types
of Policing
Reading Assignment
-D&A1 The Foundation of the Police Role in Society (Dunham& Alpert)
-RESERVE1 On Democratic Policing (Skolnick)
-RESERVE2 Trust and Confidence in Criminal Justice (Sherman)
-B&B (p.91 ) The Functions of Police in Modern Society (Bittner)
-D&A6 Policing and Reflection (Manning)
-D&A2 The Development of the American Police: An Historical Overview (Uchida)
-B&B (p.5) The Evolving Strategy of Policing. (Kelling & Moore)
-B&B (p.26) The Evolving Strategy of Policing: A Minority View. (Williams & Murphy)
SPRING BREAK – MAR 13 & 15
Police Behavior:
Discretion &
Misconduct
EXAM 2 – Apr 3
Force & Coercion
Mar 20
Mar 22
Mar 27
Mar 29
-D&A5 Police Discretionary Behavior: A Study of Style (Brooks)
-D&A14 Breeding Deviant Conformity: The Ideology and Culture of Police (Kappeler, Sluder & Alpert)
-B&B (p.173) The Professional Political Model of the Good Policeman (Muir)
-B&B (p.184) The Social Organization of Arrest. (Black)
-B&B (p.197) The Asshole. (Van Maanen)
-D&A9 Traditional and Innovative Police Responses to Domestic Violence (E. Buzawa & C. Buzawa)
Apr 5
Apr 10
-RESERVE5 The Beating of Rodney King (Skolnick & Fyfe)
-RESERVE6 We Own the Night (Lynch)
-B&B128 The “Causes of Police Brutality” (Worden)
-B&B (p.117) 1991 Summary Report of the Independent Commission. (Independent Comm. on the LAPD)
-D&A24 The Split-Second Syndrome and Other Determinants of Police Violence (Fyfe)
-D&A25 What We Know about Police Use of Force (Adams)
-RESERVE7 Lawful Policing (Skogan and Meares)
-B&B (p. 216) Administrative Interventions on Police Shooting Discretion. (Fyfe)
-D&A27 Police Operational Management: Rethinking the Legal Shell Game (W. Smith)
-D&A11 Introduction to Early Intervention Systems (Walker)
-D&A16 Ethics and Law Enforcement (Pollock)
-D&A15 Addressing Police Misconduct: The Role of Citizen Complaints (Rojek, Decker & Wagner)
Controlling Police
Behavior
Apr 12
Apr 17
Apr 19
Racial Profiling
Apr 24
Apr 26
Diversity
May 1
May 3
-D&A17 Law Enforcement Agency Responses to Racially Biased Policing and the Perceptions of Its Practice (Fridell &
Michael)
-RESERVE8 Race and Place: The Ecology of Racial Profiling African American Motorists (Meehan & Ponder)
-D&A18 An Afrocentric Perspective on Policing (Cooper)
-D&A19 Women Officers on the Move (Martin)
-D&A28 Gender and Police Stress: The Convergent and Divergent Impact of Work Environment, Work-Family Conflict,
and Stress Coping Mechanisms of Female and Male Police Officers (He, Zhao & Archbold)
-D&A4 Law Enforcement Training: Changes and Challenges (Chappell, Lanza-Kaduce & Johnston)
FINAL EXAM - Tues. May 8, 10-11:50 a.m.
B&B = Brandl & Barlow “The Police in America”
D&A = Dunham & Alpert “Critical Issues in Policing”
Reserves are available online at: socqrl.niu.edu/miller/courses/soci486/readings.html