Overview
This textbook discusses the role of community-oriented policing, including the police image, public expectations, ethics in law enforcement, community wellness, civilian review boards, and what the community can do to help decrease crime rates. In addition, the author covers basic interpersonal skills and how these might vary according to the race, sex, age, and socioeconomic group with which the officer is interacting. Finally, students learn how to initiate new programs in a community, from the planning process and community involvement to dealing with management and evaluating program success.
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Includes coverage of the implementation of a comprehensive policing program.
Includes an entire chapter devoted to understanding police culture.
Covers the major elements of policing that contribute to the community policing model.
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Table of Contents
Ch. 1 Police History Relevant to Community Policing
Ch. 2 Understanding Police Culture
Ch. 3 Police Discretion, Police Misconduct, and Mechanisms to Control Police Misconduct
Ch. 4 Crime Prevention and Community Policing
Ch. 5 Concepts, Strategies, Experiments, and Research Findings That Have Influenced Community Policing
Ch. 6 Communities, Neighborhoods, and Multiculturalism
Ch. 7 Problem-Oriented Policing
Ch. 8 Community-Oriented Policing
Ch. 9 Organizational Change and Community Policing
Ch. 10 Planning the Implementation of Community Policing
Ch. 11 Selected Approaches to Training and Planning
Ch. 12 Distinctive Community Policing Programs
Ch. 13 The Future of Community Policing Index
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THE POLICE AND THE COMMUNITY
The function of police in contemporary society; the problems arising between citizens and police from the enforcement and nonenforcement of laws, from social changes, and from individual and group police attitudes and practices.
COMMUNITY POLICING
Police involvement in the community: regular and meaningful contact, quality of life conditions, problem solving and coordination with community service organizations. Crime information, investigation and prevention through community relations.
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