NEW EDITION AVAILABLE NOW! This widely used text is primarily an introductory or survey text for a lower-division
college course. It was designed for easy undergraduate student comprehension of the complex issue of community
relations. This text also serves effectively as a co-reader for more intensive courses at the upper-division graduate
level. (275 pages)
Centers on the working practicalities of various effective communities, ethnic groups, and human and race relations
programs.
Shows how to use the community to effectively prevent crime.
Includes numerous tables, charts, graphs, and illustrations that add interest and ease comprehension of the
dilemma of crime and crime statistics analysis.
Table of Contents
1. Why Community Relations?
2. The Structure of the Community
3. Law Enforcement, Judiciary, and Corrections
4. The Criminal Justice System and the Community
5. Minority Groups in the Community
6. Community Power Structure
7. Sharing Power with the Institutions of Government
8. Human Relations Problems of Courts and Corrections
9. Human Relations Problems and Police Process
10. An Analysis of Community Problems
11. Who Is Responsible for Community-Police Interaction?
12. Importance of Self Image
13. Community Relations Programming
14. New Criminal Justice Issues for the 1990s.