Introduction to Criminal Justice - Softcover

Peak, Kenneth J.; Madensen, Tamara D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544321813 ISBN 13: 9781544321813

Publisher: Sage Pubns, 2018

Synopsis

This bundle includes Kenneth John Peak's Introduction to Criminal Justice 3e and Kenneth John Peak's Introduction to Criminal Justice Interactive eBook.

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About the Author

Kenneth J. Peak is emeritus professor and former chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Reno, where he was named "Teacher of the Year" by the university's Honor Society. Following four years as a municipal police officer in Kansas, he subsequently held positions as a nine-county criminal justice planner for southeast Kansas; director of a four-state technical assistance institute for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (based at Washburn University in Topeka); director of university police at Pittsburg State University (Kansas); acting director of public safety, University of Nevada, Reno; and assistant professor of criminal justice at Wichita State University. He has authored or coauthored 37 additional textbooks (relating to general policing, community policing, criminal justice administration, police supervision and management, and women in law enforcement), two historical books (on Kansas temperance and bootlegging), and more than 60 journal articles and invited book chapters. He is past chair of the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and past president of the Western Association of Criminal Justice. He received two gubernatorial appointments to statewide criminal justice committees while residing in Kansas and holds a doctorate from the University of Kansas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sage Pubns
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1544321813
• ISBN 13: 9781544321813
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 481