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From the Book - Eighth edition.
The Idea of Community Policing
A History of Communities and Policing
The Changing Meaning of Community
The Police and Community Perception
Managing and implementing Community Policing
Community Policing and Crime
Community Policing and Fear of Crime
Problem Solving and Policing Problem Spaces
Community Crime Prevention
Community Policing and Drugs
Community Policing and Distinct Populations
Toward a New Breed of Police Officer
Community Policing at the Crossroads
The 10 Principles of Community Policing.
From the Book - Seventh edition.
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The idea of community policing
The community policing revolution
The philosophical and structural facets of community policing
What community policing does not constitute
Reconciling law enforcement with community policing
2. A history of communities and policing
The lessons of history
The British roots of policing
Colonial law enforcement in cities and towns
The rise of municipal police
Frontier justice
Vigilantism
Twentieth-century policing
Police reform in the 1930s
The police and minorities
Initial attempts to reach the community
The challenge of the late 1960s
The birth of community policing
3. The changing meaning of community
The importance of definitions
A history of the meaning of community
Virtual community and social media
Assaults on community
The technological and corporate divide
How community policing can build a sense of community
4. The police and community perception
People's attitudes toward police
Age and perception of police
Race and perception of police
Gender and perception of police
Socio-economic status and perception of police
Personal experience and perception of police
Barriers to a police-community partnership
Excessive force
Police corruption
Rudeness
Authoritarianism
Politics
Police legitimacy and procedural justices
5. Managing and implementing community policing
Organizing the police
Principles of organization and police administration
Classical organizational principles
Impediments to implementing community policing
Organizing for community policing
Strategic planning
COMPSTAT
Personnel department
Tactical planning and operations
Supervision
Geographical focus
Reoriented police operations and problem solving
Beyond COMPSTAT : predictive policing
Implementing community policing
Performance gap
Recognizing a need for change
Creating a proper climate for change
Diagnosing the problem
Identifying alternative strategies
Selective strategy
Determining and operationalizing implementation strategy
Evaluating and modifying the strategy
Leadership in the community policing department
6. Community policing and crime
Challenges to traditional crime control
Examining the nature of crime
The traditional police effort
The dynamics of serious crime
Community policing's strengths.
7. Community policing and fear of crime
Introduction to fear of crime
Discovering the "fear of crime"
The Flint Foot Patrol Experiment
What is fear of crime?
Theoretical models explaining fear of crime
Extent of fear of crime
Victimization and fear of crime
Gender and fear of crime
Age and fear of crime
Race and fear of crime
Fear of crime and schools
Media and fear of crime
Wealth and fear of crime
Community policing and fear of crime
Police programming and fear of crime
Reducing fear of crime
8. Problem solving and policing problem spaces
The nature of problems and problem solving
Geographical policing
Defining dangerous places and hot spots
The mechanics of problem solving
Scanning
Analysis
Response
Assessment
Methods for identifying problems
Officer observation and experience
Complaints and community groups
Crime mapping
Police reports, calls for service analysis, and crime analysis
Geographic concentration pattern
Similar offense pattern
Community surveys
Police problem solving
Why police departments do not engage in problem solving
9. Community crime prevention
Theoretical foundation for crime prevention
Social Disorganization Theory
Rational Choice Theory
Routine Activities Theory
Types of crime prevention strategies
Social development programs
Situational crime prevention
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)
Access control
Target hardening
Surveillance
Community crime prevention programs
Neighborhood watches
Public media campaigns
Legislative/administrative programs
Police programs
10. Community policing and drugs
Nature and extent of drug problem
Police drug strategies
High-level enforcement
Retail-level enforcement
Efforts aimed at juveniles
Community policing and drug problems
11. Community policing and distinct populations
Juveniles
Juvenile crime and violence
Crime in schools
Urban youth gangs
Community policing and gang intervention programs
Helping the homeless
Policing thee mentally ill
Minorities and the police
Lightning rods of racial tension
The Rodney King incident
The Abner Louima incident
The Amadou Diallo incident
The Rampart Division scandal
Driving while Black
Community policing and immigrant communities
Tourists and transients
12. Toward a new breed of police officer
Images and impressions
Traditional police culture
Resistance to community policing
Changing traditional police culture
What community policing offers
Implications for the future
13. Community policing at the crossroads
Community policing : from theory to practice
A restatement of the philosophy of community policing
The social context of the community policing revolution
Turning the spirit of community policing into practice
Challenges to the spirit of community policing
Contemporary issues and questions about community policing
Community policing and terrorism
The 10 principles of community policing
Glossary.
From the Book - Fifth edition.
The idea of community policing
A history of community and policing
The changing meaning of community
The police and public perception
Chapter 5. Managing and implementing community policing
Community policing and crime
Community policing and fear of crime
Problem solving and community policing
Community crime prevention
Community policing and drugs
Community policing and special populations
Toward a new breed of police officer
Community policing at the crossroads
The ten principles of community policing
Profiles in community.
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9780323340496
9780367027445
9780367027452
9781593455118
9781138850767
9780367027445
9780367027452
9781593455118
9781138850767
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