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Joseph Wambaugh/'The New Centurions'

Abstract: A 10 page analysis of Joseph Wambaugh's novel The New Centurions. In this novel, Wambaugh introduces the reader to three young police cadets and then offers vignettes that take the reader through the next five years of their police careers. Wambaugh creates a fascinating novel by dramatizing the everyday choices that police officers have to make regarding ethics. Wambaugh demonstrates through the lives of his protagonists that police work involves balancing ethical decisions with their needs as individuals and the risks that police work poses towards their own lives. No additional sources cited.


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