Issues in Policing: A Canadian Perspective

Anna Leslie is an associate professor of sociology at Sir Wilfred
Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

This book examines the roles and training of police officers, as well as
significant issues facing police, including discretion, corruption,
accountability, stress, community-based policing, and the use of force.

The text is clearly written and effectively sup-ported by case studies,
graphs, and tables (though the latter are sometimes overly dense). Not
addressed are issues associated with policing in our aging and
increasingly multicultural society. Technological advances in policing
are given similarly short shrift. Issues in Policing is sufficiently
jargon-free to appeal to general-interest readers as well as to those in
police training academies and college undergraduate courses.