Crime Analysis With Crime Map**, Fourth Edition provides students and practitioners with
a solid foundation for understanding the conceptual nature and practice of crime analysis to …

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective, 8th Edition, provides comprehensive
coverage of the philosophy and organizational strategy that expands the traditional police …

Research Summary Broken windows theory (and policing strategies based on this
perspective) predicts that citizens' perceptions of disorder in their communities cause fear …

Many researchers and police chiefs have asked the question,“Does crime analysis reduce
crime?” This question is a difficult one is because the link between crime analysis and crime …

The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department sought to reduce violent crime with an
evidence-based approach to problem analysis and intervention planning. Informed by hot …

Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning presents a
comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in …

Although the science behind hot spot policing is robust and grounded in theory,
implementation issues prevent it from becoming commonplace in everyday policing. The …

Objectives To test the accuracy of various methods previously proposed (and one new
method) to estimate offence times where the actual time of the event is not known. Methods …

" With masterful storytelling, Bergland and Hayes demonstrate how Lapham blended his
ravenous curiosity with an equable temperament and a passion for detail to create a legacy …

Objectives To examine whether group capacity for problem solving and partnership building
could be enhanced at police–community meetings by providing the results from community …