...Easy to read and understand. Precise and succinct discussion of the topics covered.
-- Emmanuel Amadi
I will use this text because it is the best text out there and will be of greatest benefit to my students.
-- Michael R. Ramon
Most of the pedagogical features are quite useful for stimulating further discussion in the classroom and research for students outside of the classroom.
-- Steven D. Ruffatto
Concrete examples and language, current, engaging
-- Carol Trent
Excellent book! Well done. I've already adopted an earlier edition, looking forward to the next.
-- Kenneth Ryan
Well-written and thorough without getting bogged down in minutia...excellent ancillaries for both instructor and student
-- James Chriss
Clear writing style, written at an appropriate level for lower-level undergraduate students who are being introduced to policing
-- Michael Covington
Clear and concise information
-- Mengyan Dai
This text addresses a number of unique and important issues that many texts either fail to cover or only peripherally mention with little or no in-depth discussion. This is a real positive that sets this text apart from others.
-- Connie Koski
Well-written and appropriate for an introductory course
-- Jon W. Glassford
The three greatest strengths are quality and depth of coverage of essential items to be covered in an undergraduate policing course, a style of writing that is appropriate to the level of students being taught and which holds their attention, and a relatively low price for a comprehensive text.
-- James Chriss
...This text is more concise in its treatment of certain topics compared to my current text, and includes much more up to date and relevant research on policing across the text chapters. I also think the authors have successfully provided important illustrative examples and ancillary materials that offer an improvement over the text that I currently use.
-- Jean Dawson
Readable with great prose, it has some new and unique additions to the discipline, and has excellent inserts -- Shawn Schwaner
