NCJ Number
178391
Editor(s)
Jean-Paul Brodeur
Date Published
1998
Length
279 pages
Annotation
This book focuses on the obstacles, problems, and concerns that impact police reform, with attention to community and problem-oriented policing, and offers direction for formulating an easy-to-understand evaluation method.
Abstract
Part I provides a general overview of community and problem- oriented policing, on which most of the evaluation research on policing has so far focused. The two chapters review the historical context in which community policing was born and examine the literature published on police reform in several countries. Part II consists of five chapters concerned with several issues in the assessment of police performance, including the assessment of individual police performance, problems raised in making an evaluation, and the role of the public in community policing. Part III contains two chapters that address organizational change and its assessment, including an assessment of the consequences expected when implementing some basic elements: "delayerization," professionalism, democratization, and service integration. The book concludes with discussions of future perspectives on increasing roles for private security agencies, hybrid agencies, and community involvement in civil policing. There is also a section that summarizes exchanges that occurred between chapter authors, police professionals, and other persons involved in the security field. 445 references and a subject index