Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Bureaucracy and political choice. Chap. 1. Administrative discretion and public policy
  • Chap. 2. Police professionalism and the bureaucratization of police work
  • Part 2. Cops as professionals and bureaucrats. Chap. 3. The patrolman and the community
  • Chap. 4. The police task and organization
  • Chap. 5. The dilemmas of administrative control
  • Part 3. Working the street. Chap. 6. Crime fighting
  • Chap. 7. Nonenforcement: minor violations and disturbances
  • Chap. 8. Police discretion and operational style
  • Chap. 9. Coping with the police bureaucracy
  • Part 4. The politics of police discretion. Chap. 10. Political control of police discretion: the dilemmas of reform
  • Appendix. Scale construction
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.