A unique text/reader that takes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to the study of criminology. Providing an affordable alternative to the standard textbook, this new edition of the authors' popular text/reader provides instructors and students the best of both worlds - authored text with c[...]

Suitable for law enforcement officers, this guide presents the developments in the law of arrest, search and seizure, police authority to detain, questioning suspects and pretrial identification procedures, police power and its limitations, and civil liability of police officers and agencies.[...]