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Look Inside Police Innovation

Police Innovation
Contrasting Perspectives

2nd Edition

Editors:
David Weisburd, George Mason University, Virginia
Anthony A. Braga, Northeastern University, Boston

David Weisburd, Anthony Braga, Wesley Skogan, Stephen Mastroski, William Sousa, George Kelling, Ralph Taylor, Tom Tyler, Tracey L. Meares, David Thacher, John Eck, David M. Kennedy, Lorraine Green Mazerolle, Janet Ransley, Eli Silverman, Stephen Mastrofski, James J. Willis, Rosanne Greenspan, Dennis Rosenbaum, Jerry Ratcliffe, Rachel Boba, Brandon Welsh, Jack Greene, Barak Ariel, Cynthia Lum Chris Koper

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Date Published: October 2019
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isbn: 9781108405911

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Over the last forty years, policing has gone through a period of significant change and innovation. The emergence of new strategies has also raised issues about effectiveness and efficiency in policing, and many of these proactive strategies have become controversial as citizens have asked whether they are also fair and unbiased. Updated and expanded for the second edition, this volume brings together leading police scholars to examine these key innovations in policing. Including advocates and critics of each innovation, this comprehensive book assesses the impacts of police innovation on crime and public safety, the extent of implementation of these new approaches in police agencies, the dilemmas these approaches have created for police management, and their impacts on communities.
- Utilizes the advocate/critic approach and gives the reader an understanding of how you can pay attention to the evidence and still come to different conclusions
- Provides the most extensive coverage of what has come to be called proactive policing, a very controversial and much discussed public issue
- Offers examinations from leading police scholars of eleven key innovations in policing
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Product details
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: October 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108405911
- length: 582 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 32 mm
- weight: 0.84kg
- contains: 11 b/w illus. 6 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: the context of police innovation David Weisburd and Anthony Braga
Part I. Community Policing:
1. Advocate: community policing Wesley Skogan
2. Critic: community policing: a skeptical view Stephen Mastroski
Part II. Broken Windows Policing:
3. Advocate: of 'broken windows' criminology and criminal justice William Sousa and George Kelling
4. Critic: incivilities reduction policing, zero tolerance, and the retreat from coproduction: even weaker foundations and stronger pressures Ralph Taylor
Part III. Procedural Justice Policing:
5. Advocate: procedural justice policing Tom Tyler and Tracey Meares
6. Critic: the limits of procedural justice David Thacher
Part IV. Problem-Oriented Policing:
7. Advocate: why problem-oriented policing John Eck
8. Critic: problem-oriented policing: the disconnect between principles and practice Anthony Braga and David Weisburd
Part V. Pulling Levers (Focused Deterrence) Policing:
9. Advocate: policing and the lessons of focused deterrence David M. Kennedy
10. Critic: partnership, accountability, and innovation: clarifying Boston's experience with focused deterrence Anthony Braga
Part VI. Third-Party Policing:
11. Advocate: third-party policing Lorraine Green Mazerolle and Janet Ransley
12. Critic: third-party policing: a critical view Tracey L. Meares
Part VII. Compstat:
13. Advocate: Compstat's innovation Eli Silverman
14. Critic: changing everything so that everything can remain the same: Compstat and American policing David Weisburd, Stephen Mastrofski, James J. Willis and Rosanne Greenspan
Part VIII. Hot Spots Policing:
15. Advocate: hot spots policing as a model for police innovation Anthony Braga and David Weisburd
16. Critic: the limits of hot spots policing Dennis Rosenbaum
Part IX. Predictive Policing:
17. Advocate: predictive policing Jerry Ratcliffe
18. Critic predictive policing: where's the evidence Rachel Boba
Part X. Evidence-Based / Risk-Focused Policing:
19. Advocate: evidence-based policing for crime prevention Brandon Welsh
20. Critic which evidence? What knowledge? Broadening information about the police and their interventions Jack Greene
Part XI. Technology Policing:
21. Advocate technology in policing Barak Ariel
22. Critic: the limits of police technology Cynthia Lum and Chris Koper
Conclusion: police innovation and the future of policing David Weisburd and Anthony Braga.
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Editors
David Weisburd, George Mason University, Virginia
David Weisburd is Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, Virginia and Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has received many international awards recognizing his work on policing and criminology more generally, including the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the Edwin Sutherland and August Vollmer Awards from the American Society of Criminology, and the Israel Prize. Professor Weisburd served as Chair of the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Proactive Policing.
Anthony A. Braga, Northeastern University, Boston
Anthony A. Braga is a Distinguished Professor in and Director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University, Boston. Between 2007 and 2013, Braga served as the Chief Policy Advisor to Commissioner Edward F. Davis of the Boston Police Department. His work with the Boston Police Department was recognized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police with its Excellence in Law Enforcement Research Award (2011).
Contributors
David Weisburd, Anthony Braga, Wesley Skogan, Stephen Mastroski, William Sousa, George Kelling, Ralph Taylor, Tom Tyler, Tracey L. Meares, David Thacher, John Eck, David M. Kennedy, Lorraine Green Mazerolle, Janet Ransley, Eli Silverman, Stephen Mastrofski, James J. Willis, Rosanne Greenspan, Dennis Rosenbaum, Jerry Ratcliffe, Rachel Boba, Brandon Welsh, Jack Greene, Barak Ariel, Cynthia Lum Chris Koper