This ethnographic study, which includes participant observation research and in-depth interviews with police officers in a major California city and a large East Coast city, explores how police officers use their discretionary time on the job-and the consequences. Providing highly textured insights into police discretion, the authors show that America's "tough on crime" approach to justice has too often proved to be a smoke screen for controlling people deemed undesirable, rather than a genuinely effective strategy for reducing crime.
- ISBN10 1555538126
- ISBN13 9781555538125
- Publish Date 8 August 2013
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northeastern University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English