Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices (3rd Edition) - Hardcover

Peak, Kenneth J.; Glensor, Ronald W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130912700 ISBN 13: 9780130912701

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2001

Synopsis

Authoritative and practical in perspective, this book explores the collective nationwide experience in implementing both community policing and problem-oriented policing (COOPS). It explains the processes and terms in detail—what they mean and how they are applied, as well as how they are implemented and evaluated. It explores both historical and operational perspectives, and provides examples of existing strategies and future considerations. Features case studies of how COPPS is now operational in many venues, both domestic and foreign. The Evolution of Policing. Changing People, Crime, and Policing. Community Oriented Government. Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving (COPPS). Crime Prevention. Planning and Implementation. From Recruit to Chief. Training for COPPS. Police in a Diverse Society. New Strategies for Old Problems. Addressing Concerns With COPPS. Evaluating COPPS Initiatives. Selected American Approaches. COPPS Abroad. For anyone involved in law enforcement.

About this title

From the Publisher

This text was written in response to a need for a book that combines both community-policing and problem-oriented policing concepts. These are relatively new concepts now being employed by innovative police agencies worldwide. This book explains the processes and terms, what they mean and how they are applied, as well as how they are implemented and evaluated.

From the Back Cover

Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices, now in its third edition, continues to analyze community policing so that the student and recruit can understand what it is and how it works. Fully updated and revised, this new edition features the following:

• A Nation in Flux: Changing People, Crime, and Policing
• Attending to the "Customer": Community Oriented Government
• Planning and Implementation: Translating Ideas into Action
• From Recruit to Chief: Changing the Agency Culture
• Police in a Diverse Society
• New Strategies for Old Problems: COPPS on the Beat
• The "Devil's Advocate": Addressing Concerns with COPPS
• Evaluating COPPS Initiatives
• Selected American Approaches and in Foreign Venues: COPPS Abroad

Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices continues to address the issues of applying community policing concepts to real life, by offering approaches, examples, and best of all-solutions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130912700
• ISBN 13: 9780130912701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 453