Introduce students to the challenges, excitement and rewards of law enforcement today with Dempsey, Forst and Carter's AN INTRODUCTION TO POLICING, 9th Edition. Written by law enforcement veterans with extensive first-hand experience in all areas of policing, this engaging book blends practical information with pertinent theory. The authors examine current issues and topics, and present the latest in academic and practitioner research as well as the most current applications, statistics, court cases and information on law enforcement careers. Extensive examples from police departments throughout the nation and world as well as essays from respected law enforcement veterans offer insights into crucial law enforcement issues and challenges. Available with MindTap®, the digital learning solution that powers students' mastery of key concepts while engaging them with video cases, career scenarios, visual summaries, and more.

Part I: POLICE HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION.
1. Police History.
2. Organizing Public Security in the United States.
3. Organizing the Police Department.
Part II: THE PERSONAL SIDE OF POLICING.
4. Becoming a Police Officer.
5. The Police Role and Police Discretion.
6. Police Culture, Personality, and Police Stress.
7. Minorities in Policing.
8. Police Ethics and Police Deviance.
Part III: POLICE OPERATIONS.
9. Patrol Operations.
10. Investigations.
11. Police and Their Clients.
12. Community Policing.
13. Police and the Law.
Part IV: CRITICAL ISSUES IN POLICING.
14. Computers, Technology, and Criminalistics in Policing.
15. Homeland Security.

Introduce students to the challenges, excitement and rewards of law enforcement today with Dempsey, Forst and Carter's AN INTRODUCTION TO POLICING, 9th Edition. Written by law enforcement veterans with extensive first-hand experience in all areas of policing, this engaging book blends practical information with pertinent theory. The authors examine current issues and topics, and present the latest in academic and practitioner research as well as the most current applications, statistics, court cases and information on law enforcement careers. Extensive examples from police departments throughout the nation and world as well as essays from respected law enforcement veterans offer insights into crucial law enforcement issues and challenges. Available with MindTap®, the digital learning solution that powers students' mastery of key concepts while engaging them with video cases, career scenarios, visual summaries, and more. New and updated coverage offers insight into issues central to the Black Lives Matter movement. Topics include police-community relations, double marginality of African American police officers, violence against police and police shootings of civilians. A reframed discussion illuminate's recruitment and training processes for police officers. It's based on the recommendations from the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and covers new training topics, such as management and leadership training, implicit bias training, de-escalation techniques, crisis intervention and blue courage. Thorough and up-to-date coverage on current topics includes discussion of the guardian philosophy of police service, transgender police officers and police responses to homeless individuals and individuals with mental illness. New material also covers the focus on increasing the number of female executives in law enforcement, new community policing initiatives, advances in policing technology, the opioid epidemic and sanctuary cities and immigration--including the DHS' controversial Secure Communities Program. The book discusses small and rural departments while maintaining critical foundational coverage students need to understand who police are, what they do, and how they do it. You Are There boxes bring readers into the center of significant historic and current policing events with detailed examinations of these events and their impact on the field of law enforcement. On the Job boxes provide realistic insights into law enforcement careers. The authors draw upon their own first-hand law enforcement experience to provide detailed descriptions and important insights into pursuing a career today in policing. Guest Lectures feature essays from respected veterans of law enforcement and higher education who offer practitioner-based insights into crucial law enforcement issues and challenges. Key terms are defined in each chapter when they first appear. In addition, end-of-chapter references offer an easy method for quickly locating important information on key topics.