Crime Prevention: The Role of the Police
Product Details
Author(s): Jerry Wayne Joplin, Sanjay Marwah
ISBN: 9781680754858
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2017
Available Formats
Format: GRLContent (online access)
$84.00
Overview of
Crime Prevention: The Role of the Police
Police organizations and police officers are facing significant scrutiny today and have throughout their history. Discussions of appropriate police roles and functions and the development of workable management and administration principles for police departments are critically needed. The key actor in police agencies is police management and their leadership to address and resolve police problems cannot be ignored. In particular, historical (to the present), theoretical, and empirical examinations of the role of police organizations in being effective and democratic crime preventers are notably missing. These issues are explored and dissected with specific attention to the politics of police organizations, management-subordinate relations, bureaucratic characteristics and cooperation with the courts, corrections, and the public, and the nature of discretion in enhancing crime prevention by the police.
Table of Contents
Unit 1: Police and Crime Prevention
Chapter 1: Crime Prevention Today
a. Crime Control/Deterrence: Distinguishing Principles
B. Dominant Approaches in Crime Prevention
C. Limits of punishment-Deterrence-Order-Maintenence
Chapter 2: Overcoming Limitations to Top-Down Policing
A. Contrasting Crime Prevention from Crime Control
B. Top-Down Policing
C. Police Officer-Led Crime Prevention
Chapter 3: Expansing Police Roles
A. Contexualizing Crime & Crime Prevention
B. Boradening Crime Prevention
C. Contextual Analysis
D. Specifying Police Roles in Crime Prevention
Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Police-Led Crime Prevention
Unit 1 Review
Unit 2: Police As First Responders
Chapter 5: A Short History of Crime Prevention
A. Early Policing
B. Organized Policing
C. Professionalized Policing
Chapter 6: Conflicting Expectations & Police Roles
A. Expectations: Sources to Pressues to Divergence
B. policing Expectations: Crime Control & Order Maintenance
C. Socila Issues
D. Quality of Life/Community
Chapter 7: Crime Prevention Frist Responders
A. Remaining Challenges
B. Roles & Opportunities for Crime Prevention
Successful Strategies for Crime Prevention
Unit 2 Review
Unit 3: Police Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice
Chapter 8: Politics of Policing
A. Legal Dimensions
B. Bureaucratic/Managerial Dimensions
C. Community/Citizen Dimensions
D. Constraints and Opportunities
Chapter 9: Courts and Police
A. Legal Dominance
B. Impairing Discretion
C. Creating Reactive Crime Prevention
Chapter 10: Corrections and Police
A. Absence of Coordination
B. Extreme Crime Control/Order Maintenance
C. Cyclical Generation of Crime & Criminality
Chapter 11: Managing Constraints & Promise of Police Discretion Opportunities
Unit 3 Review
Unit 4: Democratic Policing Crime Prevention
Chapter 12: Police Crime Prevention
A. Integrated Prevention
B. Beyond Force and Legitimacy
C. Promoting Proportional Policing
Chapter 13: Democratic Policing Environments
A. Avoiding Instrumentalism
B. Contextualized Policing
C.Moving Away from Binary Thinking
Chapter 14: Activating Agent-Centered Crime Prevention
A. Analyzing Human Situations
B. Elevating Deliberation
C. Expansive Problem-Solving
Chapter 15: Discretion & Practice of Democratic Policing
Unit 4 Review