Crime and community policing / M. Alper Sozer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sozer, M. Alper, 1977-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community policing--Research--United States.

Community policing.

Crime prevention--Research--United States.

Crime prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso [Tex.] : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sozer examines whether community policing reduces the crime. He finds that community policing, as implemented in the U.S., does not reduce crime and that it, unfortunately, does not, in practice, involve the community. Although community contribution and participation are considered to be most the important dimensions of community policing, they are the least practiced ones. In practice, the implementation of community policing is no different than traditional policing. On the other hand, community dynamics such as residential mobility, urban population, and poverty are stronger factors affect

Contents:

The question of decades : is it working

Community policing

Community policing and crime

Road map to research

The impact of COP on crime rates

What we learned.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593325435

1593325436

OCLC:

773565168