The book is divided into 18 chapters: (1) Social Control and Social Order; (2) The Historical Evolution of Policing; (3) The Organization of American Law Enforcement Agencies; (4) Police Patrol and Traffic Functions; (5) Investigations, Juveniles, and Special Units; (6) Criminal Investigation; (7) Interviews and Interrogations; (8) Constitutional Regulations and the Police: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Criminals; (9) Criminalistics and the Police; (10) Computers and the Police; (11) Police Discretion; (12) Women and Minorities in Law Enforcement; (13) Police Subculture; (14) Police Ethics; (15) Police Deviance and Corruption; (16) Hazards of Policing: Danger, Stress, and AIDS; (17) Police Professionalism; and (18) The Future: Education, Training, and Privatization in Policing. Each chapter includes chapter objectives, key terms, summary, references and questions for review. References, tables, figures, index