Policing: The Essentials
First Edition
Learning Objectives
- Discuss police culture
- Review the history and workplace experiences of women in American policing.
- Recognize how American police agencies have become more racially/ethnically diverse over time.
- Discuss the workplace experiences of police officers based on their sexual orientation.
- Explore differences in the treatment of police officers based on some combination (intersectionality) of their gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation.
- Examine how changes in police personnel have altered the police culture.