Career experiences of African American police executives : black in blue revisited /

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Thompson studies the career experiences of over 100 black police executives, many of whom command some of the nation's largest and most progressive law enforcement agencies. Considering their relationships with white colleagues as well as black and white citizens, he asks them what it was like...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thompson, R. Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2003.
Series:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Subjects:
Police chiefs > United States.
African American police.
Occupations and race.
Policiers noirs américains.
Professions et race.
Chefs de police > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
African American police
Occupations and race
Police chiefs
United States
Samfundsvidenskab > Sociologi.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / W. Marvin Dulaney
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chap. 1. The impetus for racial integration of American policing
  • Chap. 2. A brief history of black police
  • Chap. 3. Early treatment of black officers by police departments
  • Chap. 4. Black and white officers together on the job
  • Chap. 5. Black officers and the black community
  • Chap. 6. Black officers and the white community
  • Chap. 7. Institutional barriers to widespread promotion
  • Chap. 8. A tentative notion of the black executive's working world
  • Chap. 9. The research initiative
  • Chap. 10. Research findings
  • Chap. 11. Observations and conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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