Problem-Oriented Policing: From Innovation to Mainstream (Crime Prevention Studies)

Leading authorities in the field address the theory and practice of problem-oriented policing, i.e. an approach which moves away from an incident-driven approach to policing towards more proactive and preventive approaches. They assess the advantages and disadvantages of this increasingly important approach in the work of the police, review progress that has been made in implementing this concept, and consider what needs to be done to improve the number and quality of problem-oriented policing projects. Topics addressed in this book include the receptivity of police managers and line officers to problem-oriented policing, the willingness and capacity of police organisations to make necessary changes, the in-house expertise of police in crime analysis, support from academia and the research community in supporting good practice, the need for police to be aware of concepts from situational crime prevention and environmental criminology, experience in implementing other evidence based strategies like repeat victimization and the expectations of the wider community about the police role and function.

Politics & Social Sciences

Johannes Knutsson

Social Sciences

Lynne Rienner Publishers

Putting Theory to Work: Implementing Situational Prevention And Problem-oriented Policing (Crime Prevention Studies)

Evaluating Crime Reduction Initiatives (Crime Prevention Studies)

Evaluation has been a driving force in the recent worldwide growth of problem-oriented policing and situational crime prevention, two related approaches whose primary goal is to reduce opportunities for crimes. Nevertheless, in their introduction the co-editors report a growing consensus that evaluations of many of these programs have been unsatisfactory. Debates about how best to improve evaluations, what types of assessments will be most useful to policymakers and practitioners, and what has been learned from past evaluations, form the starting points for the chapters in this volume. Chapter topics addressed in this volume include: Is the standard of evaluations in problem-oriented policing projects good enough?  by Johannes Knutsson; An appraisal of 37 years of situational crime prevention evaluations  by Rob Guerette; Using signatures of opportunity structures to examine mechanisms in crime prevention evaluations  by John Eck and Tamara Madensen; Conducting interviews in small areas to evaluate community perceptions of crime reduction strategies  by Anthony Braga and Brenda Bond; Whats the what in what works? in health, policing and crime prevention  by Nick Tilley; Estimating and extrapolating causal effects for crime prevention policy and program evaluation  by Gary T. Henry; and, Potential uses of computational methods in the evaluation of crime reduction activity  by Shane D. Johnson. This book shows that the task of conducting qualified evaluations is complicated. It represents a challenge both to the police and to the researchers  excerpt from the Foreword by Ingelin Killengreen, National Police Commissioner of Norway.

Nick Tilley

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