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Book Description: American Psychological Association (APA). Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 1591471508 Student Edition. New book. Bookseller Inventory # 1591471508-11

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Book Description: American Psychological Association, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 2nd Edition. Brand New. Bookseller Inventory # 5796

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Book Description: American Psychological Association, Washington DC, 2004. Book Condition: New. Bookseller Inventory # 1387102

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Book Description: American Psychological Association, United States, 2004. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 2nd Revised edition. 238 x 162 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Police as Problem Solvers is a lively yet scholarly book written by a pioneer of an approach to community issues that makes police officers pioneering professionals who systematically study and address social problems in their localities. Cops become social scientists who work with other agents in the community to address root causes of crime. Bookseller Inventory # AAN9781591471509

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Book Description: American Psychological Association. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Police as Problem Solvers: How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change (2nd Revised edition), Hans Toch, J.Douglas Grant, Faced with the problems associated with grinding poverty and a no-win drug war, police departments are adapting and changing. Foot patrol officers again walk the streets and talk to citizens, and neighborhood crime watches are valued as the eyes and ears of enforcers. Most seminal is the "quiet revolution" that has been called problem-oriented policing. This revolution makes police officers pioneering professionals who systematically study and address social problems in their localities. Cops become social scientists who work with other agents in the community to address root causes of crime. Police as Problem Solvers is a lively yet scholarly book written by two pioneers of the approach. The authors conducted the legendary first experiment in which police officers became researchers and "agents of change." Using verbatim transcripts of officers working through problems both in the community and among their own ranks, they recount highlights of the experiment and traces its impact. This revolution has implications not only for social policy and criminal justice but also for work reform because it expands the jobs of frontline workers (police officers), showing that authoritarian management is obsolete. This book is a gem that will be prized by social psychologists, criminologists, organizational consultants, and community activists. Bookseller Inventory # B9781591471509

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Book Description: Book Condition: New. Faced with the problems associated with grinding poverty and a no-win drug war, police departments are adapting and changing. Foot patrol officers again walk the streets and talk to citizens, and neighborhood crime watches are valued as the eyes and ears of enforcers. Most seminal is the "quiet revolution" that has been called problem-oriented policing. This revolution makes police officers pioneering professionals who systematically study and address social problems in their localities. Cops become social scientists who work with other agents in the community to address root causes of crime. Police as Problem Solvers is a lively yet scholarly book written by two pioneers of the approach. The authors conducted the legendary first experiment in which police officers became researchers and "agents of change." Using verbatim transcripts of officers working through problems both in the community and among their own ranks, they recount highlights of the experiment and traces its impact. This revolution has implications not only for social policy and criminal justice but also for work reform because it expands the jobs of frontline workers (police officers), showing that authoritarian management is obsolete. This book is a gem that will be prized by social psychologists, criminologists, organizational consultants, and community activists. Brand NEW unread book. Hard cover bound book. Bookseller Inventory # 9781591471509

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Book Description: Amer Psychological Assn, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 353 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __1591471508

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