Justice Administration: Police, Courts, And Corrections Management
Language: English
Published by Pearson College Div, 2006
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- Title
- Justice Administration: Police, Courts, And Corrections Management
- Author
- Peak, Kenneth J.
- Publisher
- Pearson College Div
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0132206730
- ISBN 13
- 9780132206730
- Edition
- 5th or later Edition
- Series
- Book 9 of 20: What's New in Criminal Justice
Justice Administration: Police, Courts, and Corrections Management, Fifth Edition, is the only single-author book of its kind: exploring administration from a systems perspective and examining the organization, operation, personnel roles, functions, issues and practices of the police, courts, and corrections. Drawing on the author’s 35 years of experience, the text offers an authentic and unique real -world perspective. This revision incorporates more than 30 case studies, discussions of future considerations, articles from Law Enforcement News and a new chapter on terrorism and homeland defense. Updated material addresses topics such as the Prison Litigation Reform Act, probation-police partnerships, computer crime and probation, and new technologies.
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About the Author
KEN PEAK is a full professor and former chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Reno, where he was named "Teacher of the Year by the university's Honor Society, 1984-85. He served as chairman of the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences from 1997 to 1999 and recently served as president of the Western and Pacific Association of Criminal Justice Educators. He entered municipal policing in Kansas in 1970 and subsequently held positions as a nine-county criminal justice planner for southeast Kansas, director of a four-state Technical Assistance Institute for LEAA, director of university police at Pittsburgh State University, and assistant professor of criminal justice at Wichita State University. He has also served as acting director of public safety at the University of Nevada, Reno.
His earlier Prentice Hall books include Policing America: Methods, Issues, Challenges (3d ed., 2000) and Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices (2d ed., 1999, with Ronald W. Glensor). Other books include Police Supervision (with Ronald W. Glensor and Larry K. Gaines, 1999) and Kansas Bootlegger (with Patrick G. O'Brien, Sunflower University Press, Kansas State University, 1991). Two additional books, Kansas Temperance: Much Ado About Booze, 1870-1920 (Sunflower University Press) and Policing Communities: Understanding Crime and Solving Problems (an anthology, co-edited with R. Glensor and M. Correia, Roxbury Press), are in press. He also has published more than 50 journal articles and book chapters. His teaching interests include policing, administration and comparative justice systems. While residing in Kansas he received two gubernatorial appointments to statewide criminal justice committees. He has a doctorate from the University of Kansas.
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