American Volunteer Police: Mobilizing for Security

ISBN-13: 9780367669171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 396 str.

Martin Alan Greenberg

Opis

A selective overview of the history, organizations, operations and legal aspects of volunteer police in the U.S., this book is designed to help police leaders adopt or modify their own volunteer programs. It presents contributions of police and safety volunteers at all levels of government, examines youth involvement in contemporary police depar

Spis treści

Overview of Volunteer Policing. Introduction. Mobilizing for Security. The Early History of Volunteer Police. Auxiliaries and Reserves: Volunteer Police Generalists. Volunteer State Police. The Federal Government and Volunteer Policing. Special Issues in Volunteer Policing. Non-Sworn Roles of Adults in Volunteer Policing. Youth Involvement in Police Work. Youth Involvement in Public Safety and Security at the Federal Level. Legal Issues and Volunteer Police. Volunteer Police and the Prevention of Human Trafficking. The Future of Volunteer Police. Epilogue. Appendices. Appendix A: The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Reserve and Auxiliary Police Standards. Appendix B: Modern Era National Service Time Line. Appendix C: Preventing Terrorist Attacks. Appendix D: Selected Government Internship Opportunities with Federal Government Intelligence Agencies and Law Enforcement Agencies. Appendix E: Human Trafficking—A Brief Annotated Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Martin Alan Greenberg has headed criminal justice programs at several universities, having earned his Ph.D. degree from the City University of New York and Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from New York Law School. He has worked as a senior court officer, probation officer, school security assistant, and law clerk. Dr. Greenberg was also a member the New York City Auxiliary Police Force for 12 years, obtaining the rank of auxiliary deputy inspector. His earlier books dealing with volunteer police include: Auxiliary Police: The Citizens Approach to Public Safety (1984) and Citizens Defending America: From Colonial Times to the Age of Terrorism (2005).