This best-selling text presents a vivid introduction to police organizations that focuses on the procedures, politics and human relations issues police supervisors and administrators must understand in order to succeed.

Building on the authors’ decades of collective experience in law enforcement, training, and teaching, Police Administration 8/e is recognized by both the academic and law enforcement communities as the authoritative treatment of this topic.

Fully updated in this edition, it includes the latest on the evolution of American policing, the organization and the leader, the management of police organizations, and modern organizational issues.

Features include:

• Authoritative, comprehensive and carefully researched. Gives students the most complete and trusted textbook available for the course.
• Numerous case studies based on the authors' own experiences. Helps students understand the theories presented in the text by highlighting real-life examples.
• Fully illustrated with photos, graphs, tables and figures. Provides visual reinforcement to the ideas presented in the text.
• An extensive instructor and student resource package — Including a comprehensive instructor's manual, computerized test bank and Companion Website.
• Provides students and instructors with additional resources to help them succeed in the course.