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A respected scholar of the early law and society movement, Skolnick interviewed police and criminals, rode extensively with detectives and attended interrogations, and ultimately saw police conduct and mentality from the inside, before such methodology became popular. Every student of law and society knows this book, and it is available again with a new Foreword by Candace McCoy and a new Preface by the author. Fifty years after his innovative research began, the continuity and change of policing and law is seen again, in all its richness and nuance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50989624164625,"sku":"NGR9781610278294","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039632359697,"sku":"NIN9781610278294","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52332941541649,"sku":"NLS9781610278294","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1610278291.jpg?v=1751151269"},{"product_id":"crisis-in-american-institutions-book-jerome-h-skolnick-9780205371488","title":"Crisis in American Institutions","description":"Crisis in American Institutions provides readers with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. 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The report that Jerome H. Skolnick and his team of researchers produced in the remarkably short time span of seven months had a significant influence on policymakers and law enforcers, and also sold over 100,000 copies before going out of print in the early 1980s. The book examined antiwar, student, and black protest, and studied the responses of the law enforcement and judicial communities to violent protest.  Forty years later and long out of print, the book remains a classic. In light of new twenty-first-century confrontations including anti-Iraq War demonstrations, face-offs between environmentalists and developers, and the continued specter of street violence between cops and people of disadvantaged communities, the time is ripe to reconsider the report's findings. In his new preface and introduction, Skolnick compares the trends and events documented in the original report to their present-day forms of protest.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52435840631057,"sku":"NLS9780814740989","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780814740989.jpg?v=1761387997"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-jerome-h-skolnick.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}