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Community Policing and Problem Solving : Strategies and Practices

ISBN: 9780130912701 | 0130912700
Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: PRENTICE HALL
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents

Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices, now in its third edition, continues to analyze community policing so that the student and recruit can understand what it is and how it works. Fully updated and revised, this new edition features the following:

  • A Nation in Flux: Changing People, Crime, and Policing
  • Attending to the "Customer": Community Oriented Government
  • Planning and Implementation: Translating Ideas into Action
  • From Recruit to Chief: Changing the Agency Cultu... MORE
  • Police in a Diverse Society
  • New Strategies for Old Problems: COPPS on the Beat
  • The "Devil's Advocate": Addressing Concerns with COPPS
  • Evaluating COPPS Initiatives
  • Selected American Approaches and in Foreign Venues: COPPS Abroad

Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices continues to address the issues of applying community policing concepts to real life, by offering approaches, examples, and best of all-solutions.



For courses in Community Policing and Problem Solving, Police in America, Police-Community Relations, Police or Criminal Justice Administration. Unique in perspective and comprehensive in coverage, this text fills a gap in the literature by providing an exceptionally up-to-date and scholarly synthesis of the collective nationwide experience in implementing both community policing and problem-oriented policing. It explains the processes and terms in detail what they mean and how they are applied, as well as how they are implemented and evaluated. It explores both historical and operational perspectives, and provides examples of existing strategies and future considerations. Author team has over 35 years combined police service and 25 years of academic experience.
1. The Evolution of Policing: Past Wisdom and Future Directions.
2. A Nation in Flux: Changing People, Crime, and Policing.
3. Attending to the “Customer” : Community Oriented Government.
4. Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving: “COPPS.”
5. Crime Prevention: For Safe Communities.
6. Planning and Implementation: Translating Ideas Into Action.
7. From Recruit to Chief: Changing the Agency Culture.
8. Train... MORE
9. Police in a Diverse Society.
10. New Strategies for Old Problems: COPPS on the Beat.
11. The “Devil's Advocate” : Addressing Concerns with COPPS.
12. Evaluating COPPS Initiatives.
13. Selected American Approaches.
14. In Foreign Venues: COPPS Abroad.
15. Looking Forward While Looking Back: The Future.
Appendix A. Problem Solving Case Studies.
Appendix B. A Community Survey in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Appendix C. A Strategic Plan Survey in Portland, Oregon.

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