Seymour Martin Lipset's highly acclaimed work explores the distinctive character of
American and Canadian values and institutions. Lipset draws material from a number of …

Even as community policing has emerged as the dominant paradigm, research indicates
that police agencies continue to be highly militaristic and bureaucratic in structure and …

A Sociology of Crime has an outstanding reputation for its distinctive and systematic
contribution to the criminological literature. Through detailed examples and analysis, it …

High-profile fatal police shootings of persons of color in recent years have led some to
propose changes in the ways that police officers are trained to reduce violence in …

Focuses on contemporary law enforcement institutions, in Canadian and US cities, to
illustrate the service limitations and public conflicts that are increasingly being generated …

The present inquiry is an attempt to determine the attitudes which adolescents in Canada
and the United States have toward the police and the determinants of these attitudes. In …

Police academy training for newly hired officers varies across locations and regions in
regard to both training process and training content. Initial police academy training and …

Only a small percentage of all cases of sexual assault are reported to the police. Why do so
many women decide not to report an assault? And what happens to the assailant when a …

Betrayal of Due Process is a landmark study of the criminal justice systems of two common-
law nations, the United States and Canada. By focusing on plea bargaining, which is one of …

One of the largest, and perhaps most intractable, problems of the criminal law involves a
consideration of what ought to be done with persons who are found to have committed a …