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A Study of the Negro Policeman: Book Review


by Nicholas Alex
Appleton-Century-Crofts
Copyright 1969 210 pages
Intro. Criminal Justice December 2, 1996


Nicholas Alex, assistant professor of sociology at The City University
of New York, holds a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research and a B.S.
from the Wharton School. He was formerly a research assistant with the Russell
Sage Foundation, an instructor at Adelphi University, and has had working
experience in his academic specialty-the sociology of professions and
occupations-while an industrial engineer in the aircraft industry, later as
business manager of the Walden School. This is his first book.
In this book Alex made an effort to examine the peculiar problems of
Negro policemen who live in an age which has not yet resolved to problem of
inequality in an assertedly democratic society. He drawn heavily on the
reflections of forty-one Negro policemen who made plain to me the difficulties
involved in......

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