Seven Highly Effective Police Leaders
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-00378-8 (ISBN)
This book provides a valuable addition to the policing literature by detailing the backgrounds and histories of seven important police leaders: Teddy Roosevelt, August Vollmer, O.W. Wilson, Penny Harrington, Bill Bratton, Chuck Ramsey, and Chris Magnus.
Seven Highly Effective Police Leaders teaches important history, highlighting the impact on the evolution of American policing by academia and social science. Each historical biography demonstrates the importance of each leader’s decision-making and how it continues to shape the future of U.S. law enforcement. Readers are informed about each police leader’s background and how their leadership was shaped by the political and historical environments in which they led.
The book is useful for educational courses in policing, American history, leadership, and strategic planning. Additionally, the general public will find this book insightful regarding contemporary mass social justice protests linked to the unique history of the United States.
Brandon Kooi, Ph.D., is a professor in the Criminal Justice program at Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University in 2004. Before his academic career, Dr. Kooi was a private security consultant/executive, criminal investigator, law clerk, and youth crisis interventionist. He assisted in training police administrators through the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing and the Wisconsin-based Problem-Oriented Leadership Institute for Chief Executives (POLICE). Dr. Kooi’s consulting work included the Aurora, Illinois Police Department’s anti-gang initiative (Finding Typhoid Mary) and Sheboygan, Wisconsin Police Department’s community policing (Neighbors Against Drugs) unit. Both initiatives were finalists for the Herman Goldstein Award at the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing international conferences. Dr. Kooi also presented his research at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium in 2018.
Introduction; 1. Teddy Roosevelt - New York Police Reformer; 2. August Vollmer - Berkeley's Father of Police Professionalism; 3. O.W. Wilson – Chief, Professor, Dean, Superintendent with Appendix on Herman Goldstein – Father of Problem- Oriented Policing; 4. Penny Harrington - Portland Feminism and the Nation's First Female Chief; 5. Bill Bratton - Commissioner NYPD and Chief of the LAPD with Appendix on George Kelling - Broken Windows Policing; 6. Chuck Ramsey – Chicago CAPs Program, Chief of Washington, DC Metropolitan Police and Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police; 7. Chris Magnus - Chief of Fargo, Richmond, California, and Tucson, Arizona
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.09.2021 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 32 Tables, black and white; 28 Halftones, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-00378-2 / 1032003782 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-00378-8 / 9781032003788 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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