This book addresses and reviews progress in a major innovative
development within police work known as evidence-based policing. It
involves a significant extension and strengthening of links between
research and practice and is directed to the task of increasing police
effectiveness in the field of community crime prevention. This volume
provides an international perspective that synthesizes recent research
results from the United States and other countries - including
systematic reviews of large bodies of evidence - to illuminate several
of the most challenging issues currently confronting police departments.
It examines recent advances in research-based models of policing and the
expanding base in outcome evaluation.
Key areas of coverage include:
- Managing the nighttime economy.
- Supervising sex offenders.
- Tackling domestic/intimate partner violence.
- Addressing school violence and the formation of gangs.
- Reducing victim and witness retraction and disengagement.
- Responding to mental disorders, safeguarding vulnerable adults, and
providing victim support.
- Leveraging public awareness campaigns.
In addition, each chapter presents an overview of key issues within a
designated area, synthesizes existing reviews, and examines the most
recent research. The book clearly and concisely presents major concepts,
theories, and research findings, thereby providing both conceptual and
analytic tools alongside an integrated presentation of principal
findings and messages. The volume concludes with a discussion of current
directions in research, key developments in policing strategies, and
identification of effective operational structures for facilitating and
sustaining research-practice links.
Evidence-Based Policing and Community Crime Prevention is a must-have
resource for researchers, clinicians and other professionals, and
graduate students in forensic psychology, criminology and criminal
justice, public health, developmental psychology, psychotherapy and
counseling, psychiatry, social work, educational policy and politics,
health psychology, nursing, and behavioral therapy/rehabilitation.
