Policing places with drug problems / Lorraine Green.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Green, Lorraine Allyce, 1945-

Series:

Drugs, health, and social policy series ; 2.

Drugs, health, and social policy series ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--United States--Prevention.

Drug abuse.

United States.

Drug control--United States.

Drug control.

Law enforcement--United States.

Law enforcement.

Community policing--United States.

Community policing.

Physical Description:

xviii, 140 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Ca. : Sage Publications, [1996]

Summary:

As traditional approaches to policing drug activity become increasingly ineffective, cities across the United States are developing new enforcement strategies to deal with the problem.

Lorraine Green charts the success of a programme in Oakland, California which features community involvement in the policing of areas where drug abuse is rife. An environment has been created where deviant activity is less likely to occur; working relationships have been established between the police and the public, properties cleaned up and civil codes enforced. This timely book concludes with a thoughtful discussion of the challenges facing other cities developing drug control programmes.

Contents:

Introduction

The traditional approach

Policing places and problems

The SMART approach

Civil remedies for crime control purposes

What follows

Places, crimes and prevention perspectives

Places and crimes

Crime prevention perspectives

Side effects of place control programs

Summary

Policing places with drug problems : the SMART approach

The Oakland site

The SMART program

Program implementation

The SMART program impact

City-wide trends in drug activity

City-wide and SMART site trends

SMART impact on place appearances

Spatial, social and prevention influences

Target places and intervention dosage

Displacement and diffusion effects

Prior research

Measuring displacement and diffusion effects

Change in catchment areas

People contacted in catchment areas

Offender movement patterns

Conclusions

What changes a place?

The challenges of policing places with drug problems

Successfully policing places with drug problems

Final word.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-128) and indexes.

ISBN:

0803970188

0803970196

OCLC:

33133435