For courses in Introduction to Law Enforcement. A current and practical look at policing practices from a big-picture perspective. Law Enforcement in the 21st Century keeps readers up-to-date in this ever-evolving field providing a synthesis of the latest research literature with practical insights from the field. The important theme of linkage blindness is a central theme throughout, highlighting the multi-jurisdictional complexities of policing in the United States and abroad. Linkage blindness is then used as an important pedagogical tool to frame realistic critical-thinking exercises. The Fourth Edition reflects the many challenges that have faced policing in the recent months and years. New chapter introductions — drawn from contemporary issues related to the use of force, community relations, and gun control — update the text for the current classroom. New concepts are added to the discussion, including student appreciation for the importance of police legitimacy. Greater attention is also paid to new technologies being piloted across the United States.

Law Enforcement in the 21st Century

Politics & Social Sciences

Grant, Heath

Terry, Karen

Social Sciences

Pearson

Taking a big picture perspective, Law Enforcement in the 21st Century, 3e examines policing practices and how law enforcement agencies relate to one another and the entire criminal justice system. Streamlined in this edition, the book emphasizes linkages across law enforcement jurisdictions and how to develop a coordinated approach to information sharing and strategy development. Unique chapters appear on multicultural communities and new technologies used to assist police in prevention, communication and control. Linkages and Law Enforcement exercises and a new MyCrimeKit website encourage students to explore the changing dynamics and nature of policing within its larger contexts.

Evidence-based policing promises better outcomes for effective policing. However, it requires meaningful partnerships between research and practice. This book is unique in its emphasis on examples of such models. To highlight the merits of research questions and methods being driven from the field, this book uniquely contains chapters written and researched by members of the New York City Police Department. The contributions from these practitioners cover important innovations in the field, including body-worn cameras, de-escalation training, responses to people in crises, focused deterrence, and evaluating innovate approaches to officer wellness. In all cases, the practitioners examined the theory and the evidence on the ground to generate the research questions and all elements of the research methods required to answer those questions. These chapters are contextualized by academics reviewing the need for such police-university collaboration within a history of evolving evidence-based policing considerations such as community policing, order maintenance, and mandatory arrest policies. This unique approach will allow students, and other interested parties, to look at the evolution of innovations in police departments from the perspective of the theoretical as well as the implementation hurdles. In addition, it will also provide a future template for evaluation of other police initiatives for both academics and practitioners in the field of law enforcement.

Evidence-Based Policing: An Evolution of Innovations in Research and Practice

Haberfeld, M.R.

Leighton, Lauren

Carolina Academic Press

This Brief explores the role of social crime prevention as a crime reduction strategy in the developing world. "Social crime prevention" focuses on the social and economic factors that may contribute to violence and criminal behavior in a community. Particularly in the developing world, an understanding of the socioeconomic and political context holds long-term potential for crime reduction (rather than crime displacement); however, the strategies are complex and the results may be slow. Generally, police and law enforcement are relied upon to present quick results, where social crime prevention strategies can be viewed as being "soft on crime" or too slow. This Brief discusses the tension between the traditional role of police and proactive social crime prevention strategies in an international context, through a variety of case studies. It also provides recommendations for balancing or reshaping this role. This work will be of interest to researchers and policy makers interested in crime prevention, particularly in the developing world, criminal theory, police studies and related disciplines such as demography, sociology and political science.

Social Crime Prevention in the Developing World: Exploring the Role of Police in Crime Prevention (SpringerBriefs in Criminology, 6)

Springer

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Law Enforcement in the 21st Century

Law Enforcement in the 21st Century

Evidence-Based Policing: An Evolution of Innovations in Research and Practice

Social Crime Prevention in the Developing World: Exploring the Role of Police in Crime Prevention (SpringerBriefs in Criminology, 6)