Thurman, Quint C., McGarrell, Edmund F.

Community Policing in a Rural Setting

Thurman, Quint C.

McGarrell, Edmund F.

Law Practice

Anderson Pub. Co.

Book by Thurman, Quint C., Parker, Lee E., O'Block, Robert L., Zeleny, Rebecca

Criminal Justice Research Sources

Politics & Social Sciences

O'Block, Robert L.

Parker, Lee E.

Zeleny, Rebecca

Social Sciences

Routledge

The authors provide stepping stones for rural and small-town agencies to make the organizational changes needed for community policing to take hold. The book introduces the concept of community policing and its many benefits to the agencies and communities that adopt it. Important issues discussed include the challenge of organizational change, as well as examples of community policing obstacles and successes, and the future of community policing in the 21st century. 
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<li>Chapters are organized to look at key issues, discussion, and conclusion. </li>
<li>Appendices include sample surveys and focus group questions.</li>
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Community Policing in a Rural Setting, Second Edition

Anderson

Offering a balanced approach to problem-solving issues in a complex and changing world, this book focuses specifically on the subject of problem solving in policing. Featured selections include chapters on domestic security, disorderly youth, auto theft, prostitution, gang delinquency and crime in public housing. Other notable selections discuss the role of supervising police personnel engaged in problem solving, advances in using this approach in criminal investigations, solving serial crimes, preparing for terrorism, and developing patrol officers as effective first responders to active violence.
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<li>The book arose from conversations with trainers at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the National Center for State and Local Law Enforcement. </li>
<li>Contributing authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds. As experts in their disciplines, they bring to this work a rich array of perspectives and innovative examples of successful problem-solving initiatives. 
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Police Problem Solving

Business & Money

Jamieson, J.D.

Management & Leadership

This book of original essays presents controversial topics, then encourages the readers to consider what they think ought to be done. The selections identify several of the existing issues in policing about which something needs to be done; then, they present various viewpoints on possible solutions. This is done against the backdrop of an era of significant change in worldwide security, post-9/11, that has caused major changes in the manner in which the U.S. conducts its political, social and economic affairs.
<ul><li>Chapter review questions provide an opportunity to synthsize the material from the chapters.</li></ul>

Controversies in Policing (Controversies in Crime and Justice)

Giacomazzi, Andrew

CONTEMPORARY POLICING: CONTROVERSIES, CHALLENGES, AND SOLUTIONS (An Anthology) presents a broad range of up-to-date articles on new policing strategies, promising approaches to the problem of crime, challenges facing the police from within and outside the organization, policing innovations, and issues of police deviance and ethics.
 Editors Quint C. Thurman and Jihong Zhao have chosen key selections from notable scholars such as Lawrence W. Sherman, Samuel Walker, Ronald V. Clarke, former Minneapolis police chief Anthony Bouza, and others to examine how policing has responded to a myriad of challenges since the late 1990s--including crime and disorder, racial profiling, police use of deadly force, gangs, corruption, drug abuse, and sexual misconduct. The article topics range from problem-solving and problem-oriented criminal investigations to CompStat and geographic profiling.

Contemporary Policing: Controversies, Challenges, and Solutions (An Anthology)

Zhao, Jihong

Criminal Law

Roxbury Pub. Co

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