Books written by John P. Crank

Mission-Based Policing

Donnelly, Patrick, and Charles Kimble. (1997). Community organizing, environmental change, and neighborhood crime. ... Pp. 3–16 in S. Decker, ed. Policing Gangs and Youth Violence. Belmont, CA: Thompson/Wadsworth. Henry, Vincent.
Imagining Justice

Bankston's (1998) research on southeast Asian gangs in the US. provides an overview of the complex processes involved in the immigration adaptation. Bankston identified three processes that linked immigration and gang formation: ...
Understanding Police Culture

... 191-192, 194, 230, 235n Sawyer, Suzanne F., 345, 346 Scandal, impact of, 72 Scharf, Peter, 127, 131-132 Schmitt, ... 191-193 coercion in, 192-193 cultural bases for, 195 research on, 193-194 Shanahan, Peter, 13 Shapiro, Thomas M., ...
Mission-Based Policing

Willis, Mastrofski, and Weisburd (2007: 148) noted in their three-department assessment of COMPSTAT: When asked “How often does your supervisor discuss what happened at COMPSTAT meetings ...
Understanding Police Culture

This book seeks to capture the heart of police culture—including its tragedies and celebrations—and to understand its powerful themes of morality, solidarity, and common sense, by systematically integrating a broad literature on police ...
Understanding Police Culture

This book seeks to capture the heart of police culture-including its tragedies and celebrations-and to understand its powerful themes of morality, solidarity, and common sense, by systematically integrating a broad literature on police ...
Police & Society

Police & Society
Police Ethics: The Corruption of Noble Cause

This book provides an examination of noble cause, how it emerges as a fundamental principle of police ethics and how it can provide the basis for corruption.
Police Ethics: The Corruption of Noble Cause

This book provides an examination of noble cause, how it emerges as a fundamental principle of police ethics and how it can provide the basis for corruption.
Imagining Justice

Imagining Justice seeks to move away from normative thinking about justice, particularly in the area of justice education, suggesting that what is needed today is a way to think about the enterprise of justice that will capture its full ...