Description
Book SynopsisDr. Ron Hunter holds the rank of Professor and founded the Criminal Justice and Criminology program at Georgia Gwinnett College. He received his Ph.D. in Criminology from Florida State University. He previously taught at Western Carolina University, the University of West Georgia, Jacksonville State University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has held administrative positions of program coordinator, department head, and associate dean. Prior to entering academia Dr. Hunter was a sergeant with the Tallahassee (Florida) Police Department. Assignments included supervising the joint Tallahassee-Leon County Robbery Task Force, the Managing Criminal Information Unit, the Career Criminal Unit, the Records Section and a squad of Officers within Uniformed Patrol. He also served seven years as a part-time Municipal Judge in Cave Spring, Georgia. Dr. Hunter is a Past President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association and of the Academy of Criminal Jus
Table of Contents
1. The Administration of Justice and the Police
2. Police Role Concept in a Changing Society
3. Police–Community Relations: An Overview
4. Public Relations and Community Relations: A Contrast
5. The Public and the Police: A Consortium of Communities
6. Relations within the Police organization
7. Coping with the Human Experience of Being a Cop
8. The Communication Process
9. Police Discretion and Community Relations
10. Community-Oriented Policing
11. Police–Community Relations and the Media<
12. Special Populations and the Police
13. Community Relations in the Context of Culture
14. Maintaining Order: Dissent and Conflict Management
15. Community Participation in the New Millennium
