Jeremy M Wilson

Community Policing in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Community policing is a recent and, to some, controversial approach to combating crime, particularly in larger urban areas. This book is a comprehensive examination of the implementation of community policing in the United States. It examines the influence of the task and institutional environment on community policing implementation and investigates the relationships between organizational structure and community policing. Key contributions of this work include: providing a theoretical framework for community policing; identifies internal/external factors that facilitate and/or impeded implementation; examining organizational structure and implantation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 162mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9780415953511
• ISBN-10: 0415953510
• Artikelnr.: 22133068

Autorenporträt

Jeremy M. Wilson is Associate Director of the Center on Quality Policing at the RAND Corporation. He also holds the Willett Chair in Public Safety at the Center for Public Safety at Northwestern University and is an Adjunct Professor at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Defining Community Policing and Reseaching its
Implication 3. Police Organizations as Open Systems 4. Organizational
Context and Community Policing 5. Organizational Structure and Community
Policing 6. Organizational Context and Organizational Structure 7. Models,
Data, and Analysis 8. Findings 9. Conclusions and Policy Implications