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Cambridge Policing Gangs In America by Charles M. Katz , Vincent J. Webb
Policing Gangs in America describes the assumptions, issues, problems, and events that characterize, shape, and define the police response to gangs in America today. The focus of this 2006 book is on the gang unit officers themselves and the environment in which they work. A discussion of research, statistical facts, theory, and policy with regard to gangs, gang members, and gang activity is used as a backdrop. The book is broadly focused on describing how gang units respond to community gang problems, and answers such questions as: why do police agencies organize their responses to gangs in certain ways? Who are the people who elect to police gangs? How do they make sense of gang members - individuals who spark fear in most citizens? What are their jobs really like? What characterizes their working environment? How do their responses to the gang problem fit with other policing strategies, such as community policing? Clarifying the concept. Past and present discourses. Spiritual well being and spiritual distress. Spiritual care in health and social care settings. Spiritual care. Sustaining hope. Soul works - the Relevance of spirituality to a healthy workplace. Religious, philosophical and cultural considerations. Faith and experience: paradigms of spirituality. An existential view: doing and being - the therapeutic relationship. Cultural and spiritual care. Creative therapy. Therapy and well being. Art as therapy. Music and well being.