The book Crime Community and Police is the result of an extensive research conducted among criminals and police in the context of changing community responses towards offences and the dealings with the cases by the police. An exhaustive treatment of the process of police community interaction has been carried out in the work. Here the nature and type of police behaviour towards criminals and the community around has been fully analysed from the view point of a critical mind. The work also makes an attempt to enquire how the community at large reacts or assesses the services of the police towards them. The present book gives a full account of the nature of the services of the police to the community mainly through the process of investigating and clearing the way for disposing of cases and the expediency that the police resort to: It has been clearly illustrated through this impirical study how police officials of different ranks get involved with the issues. The author has also brought out clearly the mechanism of corruption creeping into the network of the police community relation in the context of crime in society. The present work will be widely read and it will be of immense use for academicians, criminologists, police administrators and policymakers in the field of crime, community and police. Centres of higher learning and research in the field of Sociology of crime and police will always retain demand for the book.
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