A unique reference source that covers the philosophy of community policing and how the concept interacts with citizens, police administrators, scholars, and local and federal politicians.

Table of Contents

• List of Entries
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editor
• Contributors
• Chronology
• Introduction
• Entries
• Agency Mission and Values, Changes in
• Broken Windows Theory
• Building Partnerships and Stakeholders
• Center for Problem-Oriented Policing
• Citizen Patrols
• Citizen Police Academies
• Citizen Surveys
• Collaboration With Outside Agencies
• Colleges and Universities, Community Policing Strategies for
• Community, Definition of
• Community Cohesion and Empowerment
• Community Justice
• Community Oriented Policing Services, Office of
• Community Policing, Discretionary Authority Under
• Community Policing, Evolution of
• Community Policing: Resources, Time, and Finances in Support of
• Community Policing: What It Is Not
• Community Policing and Problem Solving, Definition of
• Community Policing Consortium
• Community Policing Self-Assessment Tool (CP-SAT)
• Community Prosecution
• CompStat
• Computer-Aided Dispatch
• Counterterrorism and Community Policing
• Crime Analysis
• Crime Analysts, Roles of
• Crime Displacement
• Crime Mapping
• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
• Customer-Based Policing
• Cybercrime and Community Policing
• Decentralizing the Organization/Organizational Change
• Demographics, Future Impact on Community Policing
• Directed Patrol, Studies of
• Domestic Violence, Characteristics of
• Domestic Violence, Community Policing Strategies for
• Drug Crimes, Characteristics of
• Drug Crimes, Community Policing Strategies for
• Elderly Victimization, Characteristics of
• Elderly Victimization, Community Policing Strategies for
• Ethical Considerations
• Evidence-Based Policing
• Executive Sessions on Policing
• Fear of Crime
• Flint, Michigan, Experiment
• Foot Patrols
• Gang Crimes, Community Policing Strategies for
• Gangs and Their Crimes, Characteristics of
• Generations (Three) of Community Policing
• Global Positioning Systems/Geographic Information Systems
• Homeland Security
• Hot Spots
• Immigrant Populations, Community Policing Strategies for
• Immigration: Issues, Law, and Police Training
• Implementation of Community Policing
• In-Service Training
• Intelligence-Led Policing
• International Community Policing
• Investigations, Community Policing Strategies for
• Involving Local Businesses
• Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment
• Learning Organization
• Measuring Officer Performance
• Mentoring
• Metropolitan Police Act of 1829
• Model Curriculum
• National Center for Community Policing
• National Crime Prevention Council
• Neighborhood Associations
• Non-sworn Personnel and Volunteers, Use and Training of
• Officers’ Job Satisfaction
• Operation Weed and Seed
• Place-Based Policing
• Police Foundation
• Police Mission
• Police Training Officer (PTO) Program
• Police-Community Relations
• Policing, Three Eras of
• Predictive Policing
• Problem, Definition of
• Problem Analysis Triangle
• Problem-Oriented Policing: Elements, Processes, Implications
• Problem-Oriented Policing, Goldstein's Development of
• Problem-Solving Courts
• Problem-Solving Initiatives, Assessment and Evaluation
• Problem-Solving Initiatives, Examples of Assessment and Evaluation of
• Problem-Solving Process (SARA)
• Public Housing, Community Policing Strategies for
• Publicity Campaigns
• Recruit Academy Training
• Recruiting for Quality and Diversity
• Regional Community Policing Institutes
• Repeat Victimization, Community Policing Strategies for
• Restorative Justice
• Roles, Chief Executives’
• Roles, First-Line Supervisors’
• Roles, Middle Managers’
• Roles, Officers’
• Rural Areas, Community Policing in
• School Violence and Safety, Characteristics of
• School Violence and Safety, Community Policing Strategies for
• Situational Crime Prevention
• Social Capital
• State Police/Patrol, Community Policing Strategies for
• Strategic Planning
• Succession Planning
• Team Policing
• Terrorism, Future Impact of Community Policing on
• Tipping Points of Neighborhoods
• Traffic Problems, Characteristics of
• Traffic Problems, Community Policing Strategies for
• Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
• Volunteers, Police Use of
• Website Uses by Local Agencies
• Wickersham Commission
• Youthful Offenders, Characteristics of
• Youthful Offenders, Community Policing Strategies for
• Appendix A: Case Studies
• Resources