Handled with discretion : ethical issues in police decision making / edited by John Kleinig.

Other author Kleinig, John, 1942-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©1996.
Description220 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Police discretion--Congresses.
Police ethics--Congresses.

Contents Handling discretion with discretion / John Kleinig -- Police, discretion, and professions / Michael Davis -- Response / Vidar Halvorsen -- From the state of nature to mayberry: the Nature of police discretion / Joan McGregor -- Response / John Kleinig -- Is police discretion justified in a free society? / Jeffrey Reiman -- Response / William C. Heffernan -- Police discretion and police objectivity / Howard Cohen -- Response / John P. Pittman --Racial generalizations and police discretion / David Wasserman -- Police discretion and discrimination / Howard McGary -- Response / Arthur Isak Applbaum -- Police, prosecutors, and discretion in investigation / Candace McCoy -- Response / Robert Jackall -- Structuring police discretion / James J. Fyfe -- Response / Diana R. Gordon.
General note"Papers ... first presented at an intensive workshop held 4-6 May 1995 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York"--Acknowledgments.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 96003420
ISBN0847681769 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0847681777 (pbk. : alk. paper)