Understanding and Using Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice shows students how to critically examine the use and interpretation of statistics, covering not only the basics but also the essential probabilistic statistics that students will need in their future careers. Taking a conceptual approach, this unique text introduces students to the mindset of statistical thinking. It presents formulas in a step-by-step manner; explains the techniques using detailed, real-world examples; and encourages students to become insightful consumers of research. FEATURES * Assumes minimal knowledge of math and is accessible to students at all levels * Incorporates examples from real journals, showing how statistics are used in practice * Explains the purpose of hypothesis testing more clearly than any other text, clarifying the concept of probability and its relationship to statistics * Call-out boxes provide more in-depth explanations of concepts

Understanding and Using Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice

Politics & Social Sciences

WALSH, ANTHONY

Cooper, Jonathon A.

Collins, Peter A.

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Events in the United States during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was especially true in terms of their relationship with society. These events included, among others: the due process revolution, which guided how police were to do their job; social science research that called into question that efficacy of the professional policing model; and race riots against police activity, which were the result of poor police-minority community relations. This book outlines these (and other) changes, explores their implications for the relationship between society and the police, and suggests that a knowledge of these changes is imperative to understanding trends in contemporary policing as well as the direction policing needs to take. As policing becomes more technologically savvy and scientific in its approach to fighting crime (for example, the SMART Policing Initiative, COMPSTAT, and problem oriented approaches such as Project Safe Neighborhoods) in a time when governments are faced with austerity, it is important to reconsider how policing got to the point it is so that, as police and governments move forward, constitutional guarantees are protected, communication with citizens remains viable and salient, and crime prevention becomes an empirical reality rather than a pipe-dream.

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform

Lexington Books

Events in the United States during the 1950s, '60s, and '70s created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was especially true in terms of their relationship with society. These events included, among others: the due process revolution, which guided how police were to do their job; social science research that called into question that efficacy of the professional policing model; and race riots against police activity, which were the result of poor police-minority community relations. This book outlines these (and other) changes, explores their implications for the relationship between society and the police, and suggests that a knowledge of these changes is imperative to understanding trends in contemporary policing as well as the direction policing needs to take. As policing becomes more technologically savvy and scientific in its approach to fighting crime (for example, the SMART Policing Initiative, COMPSTAT, and problem oriented approaches such as Project Safe Neighborhoods) in a time when governments are faced with austerity, it is important to reconsider how policing got to the point it is so that, as police and governments move forward, constitutional guarantees are protected, communication with citizens remains viable and salient, and crime prevention becomes an empirical reality rather than a pipe-dream.

Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement

Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement provides students with a highly contemporary collection of readings that articulate the complexity of modern policing. The anthology provides readers with articles that have been published since the turn of the twenty-first century and that demonstrate the richness of contemporary policing research. Employing a thoroughly academic approach, the book encourages students to consider the impact of the twentieth century on mo

Criminal Law

Cognella Academic Publishing

Using the commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a case-study, along with two other states as controls, this book examines how BARJ legislation “trickles down” to the law enforcement level through Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System Enhancement Strategy (PJJSES) and the Juvenile Justice Act (JJA). This legislation is a direct application of the BARJ model to law enforcement, essentially directing police discretion in the direction of informal dispositions. The decision to dispose formal action (such as, a referral to either juvenile court/probation, criminal court, or adult criminal court) or informal action (for instance, handling the situation within the department and/or releasing the juveniles to parents with a warning), play an integral role in determining which juveniles contact the justice system. To this end, while the overall focus of our volume and research is specifically on the impact of the PJJSES and its 2012 amendments on the number of formal dispositions of juvenile suspects by law enforcement officers, it speaks more broadly to the ability of the BARJ model to affect police officer behavior through influencing their decision-making processes.

Police Pursuing Justice: Reframing Law Enforcement for the Twenty-First Century (Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century)

Bennett, Samantha L.

Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service: Gatekeepers and Street Corner Psychiatrists (Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century)

Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service: Gatekeepers and Street Corner Psychiatrists focuses on closing the gap in literature surrounding police responses to mental health calls for service, with an emphasis on the effect of training and relationships with mental health agencies, in order to better understand the interaction between police officers and individuals with mental health diagnoses. Kayla G. Jachimowski and Jonathon A. Cooper pay close attention to Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) and its impact on how police officers would respond to these calls for service, also examining how the relationships between police, the community, and mental health service providers impact police response. Jachimowski and Cooper argue for the importance of police training about mental health disorders and explore the likelihood of diverting individuals with mental illness from the criminal justice system. Scholars of criminology, sociology, and psychology will find this book particularly useful.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Jachimowski Saint Vincent College, Kayla G.

Psychology & Counseling

Review\nDivided into two parts, this book looks at how crisis intervention training (CIT) affects police officers’ responses to mental health calls for service. Part 1 provides a historical overview of mental health in the US, explaining how psychiatric deinstitutionalization and, concomitantly, the criminalization of people with mental illness became a policing problem.... Part 2 focuses on how, in their research, the authors found that CIT did not significantly affect how duly sworn law enforcement officers and police academy cadets hypothetically responded to mental health calls for service. Undeterred by their findings, the authors conclude that CIT can nonetheless have an idiosyncratic impact on individual officers, and they encourage future research in this direction. Recommended. 
― Choice\nPolice Response to Mental Health Calls for Service: Gatekeepers and Street Corner Psychiatrists focuses on closing the gap in literature surrounding police responses to mental health calls for service, with an emphasis on the effect of training and relationships with mental health agencies, in order to better understand the interaction between police officers and individuals with mental health diagnoses. Kayla G. Jachimowski and Jonathon A. Cooper pay close attention to Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) and its impact on how police officers would respond to these calls for service, also examining how the relationships between police, the community, and mental health service providers impact police response. Jachimowski and Cooper argue for the importance of police training about mental health disorders and explore the likelihood of diverting individuals with mental illness from the criminal justice system. Scholars of criminology, sociology, and psychology will find this book particularly useful.

Review\nAnyone interested in understanding American policing in 2021 should read Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing. Professor Cooper explains the current state-of-affairs in policing through a historical lens that both links past to present and charts a course forward. This important book is as much about the present and future of policing as it is about the past. -- Michael White, Arizona State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice\nThe revised edition of Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-first Century Policing is a must-read for students of police history and how it continues to impact policing today. Cooper uses contemporary conflicts between the police and minority communities, which have dominated the media, and contextualizes them within the broader history of policing and provides potential solutions to these problems. While readers may disagree with Cooper’s conclusions, he does the heavy lifting by providing readers with a concise review of a long body of literature to help readers understand how many of our nation’s past policing problems continue to plague us today. Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-first Century Policing will be of interest to students, academics, and members of the media who are interested in a contemporary and thoughtful discussion on the historical relationship between the police and the public, how far the police have come, and how far they still have to go. -- Charles Katz, Arizona State University\nThis newly revised edition includes two new chapters exploring events in policing since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO in 2014. More than summarizing historical events, Cooper contextualizes the subsequent riots in light of classic sociological theory and political philosophy, and offers a potential and compelling new direction for improving both police use of force and the relationship between police and communities.

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform (Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century)

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Understanding and Using Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform

Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement

Police Pursuing Justice: Reframing Law Enforcement for the Twenty-First Century (Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century)

Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service: Gatekeepers and Street Corner Psychiatrists (Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century)

Police Response to Mental Health Calls for Service: Gatekeepers and Street Corner Psychiatrists (Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century)

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform (Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century)