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In the face of budget cuts, changing workforce demands, new varieties of crime and new technologies, how should police executives manage officers and other personnel and still ensure that organizational goals are being met?
The present study uses a mixed-methods research strategy to examine police practitioner- researcher partnerships. The study has two primary research objectives: (1) examine the prevalence of police practitioner- researcher partnerships in the United States; and (2) examine the factors that prevent or facilitate the development and sustainability of police practitioner- researcher partnerships.
Here we introduce four core methodologies in AoH. These are the actual meeting and dialoguing mechanisms that are employed to convene people and engage them in meaningful conversations that produce sustainable collective action.
This publication offers ten recommendations that will help executives support homicide investigations, investigators, and the communities they serve. The publication focuses on the administrative environment necessary to support successful homicide investigation outcomes and underscores the need to look beyond clearance rates to offer a starting point for executives to extend their investigations, investigators, and their communities.
The purpose of this project was to conduct an experiment to study how a collaborative problem solving approach (PS) versus directed patrol (DP) versus standard policing practices (SPP) (the control group) differently impact crime in hot spots, but more importantly how the varied strategies impact residents’ opinions about police, their neighborhoods, and their willingness to exert collective efficacy.
Overt drug markets are often associated with violence and property crime, as well as lower quality of life for nearby residents. Despite the considerable strain these markets can place on communities, efforts to close them can disrupt the delicate relationship between those who live in these communities and the criminal justice agencies charged with protecting them.
This paper presents a new quasi-experimental approach to assessing place based policing to encourage the careful evaluation of policing programs, strategies, and operations for researchers to conduct retrospective evaluations of policing programs. METHODS: We use a synthetic control model to reduce the bias introduced by models using non-equivalent comparison groups to evaluate High Point's Drug Market Intervention and demonstrate the method and its versatility for evaluating programs… Read More
More than 623,000 prisoners were released from state and federal prisons across the country in 2013, and another 11.6 million cycle through the nation’s jails each year.
The Second Chance Act: Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention was signed into law in 2008 with the goal of increasing reentry programming for offenders released from state prisons and local jails. Since 2009, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has awarded hundreds of SCA adult offender reentry… Read More
The purpose of this Guide is to prepare and assist VSPs [victim service providers) to become part of an EBDM [Evidence-Based Decision Making] policy team, as outlined in "A Framework for Evidence-Based Decision Making in Local Criminal Justice Systems".
Over the past decade, millions of homes across the country have slipped into foreclosure. National media outlets have reported anecdotal evidence suggesting that foreclosed properties attract drug dealers, gang members, prostitutes, squatters and copper thieves. But research to support those claims has been lacking, and disagreement continues about whether foreclosures and bank-owned properties increase neighborhood crime.
