[PDF] Community Policing In A Rural Setting eBook

Author : Quint Thurman
Publisher : Anderson Publishing Company (OH)
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 36,41 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Fifteen papers by experts in the fields of community policing and police management focus on the requirements of organizational change to community policing in rural police departments. One chapter helps define what community policing might look like in rural America, and another chapter presents information from studies of the nature of rural policing across the United States. A chapter presents data from a national subsample of rural police organizations to examine how far community policing has come and what factors they believe have aided or hindered such a transition. The progression of policing in Canada is highlighted in a chapter to show the dynamics of organizational change. A number of chapters address internal organizational issues. Topics in these chapters include the theory behind organizational change to community policing, the role of police culture as a resource in organizational change, and the benefits of specialized units versus department-wide adoption of community policing. A chapter discusses the ways in which police executives can better get to know their employees; and another chapter focuses on issues related to the selection, training, and retention of employees who might be assigned to community- policing work. The third section of the book moves the discussion of community policing from internal organizational change to external organizational change issues. Topics discussed in these chapters include working with communities, getting to know the community through citizen surveys and focus group interviews, organizing and managing community policing, police-community problem-solving, and the future challenge of the urbanization of rural America. Chapter references and appended sample survey questionnaires and focus group questions, and author and subject indexes.

Author : Quint Thurman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,28 MB
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 131752392X

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The authors provide stepping stones for rural and small-town agencies to make the organizational changes needed for community policing to take hold. The book introduces the concept of community policing and its many benefits to the agencies and communities that adopt it. Important issues discussed include the challenge of organizational change, as well as examples of community policing obstacles and successes, and the future of community policing in the 21st century.

Author : Ralph A. Weisheit
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2005-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478610565

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While most researchers see the urban setting as being the only laboratory for studying crime problems throughout the United States, Crime and Policing in Rural and Small-Town America directly challenges this notion with an authoritative look at crime and the criminal justice system in rural America today. The assumption that rural crime is rare and comparable across various communities has led to incompatible theories and irrelevant practices. In order to transform this misconstruction, the Third Edition offers a clear outline of the definition of rural and provides a vital argument for why rural and small-town crime should be studied more than it is. The book also explores the individual nature of issues that emerge in these communities, including illegal drug production, domestic violence, agricultural crimes, rural poverty, and gangs, in addition to the training needs of rural police, probation in rural areas, and rural jails and prisons. Responding to rural crime requires an awareness of its context and how justice is carried out, as well as an appreciation of how features vary across rural areas. Understanding the relationships among crime, geography, and culture in the rural setting can reveal useful ideas and implications for crime and justice in communities across the United States.

Author : Cram101 Textbook Reviews
Publisher : Cram101
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781478411437

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Author : Aaron Bielejewski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2022-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 365839773X

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This Open-Access-book questions the relationship between institutionalized images and understandings of policing – the monolithic ideas common to most, if not all, Western law enforcement agencies – and contextual, situative, and local interactions where the human representatives of policing – street-level officers – come into contact with residents. The political and theoretical association of specific forms of “Western” policing with democratic society can be illustrated in the case of German integration: narratives of reform and essentially forging new democratic police agencies in the “new German states” stand at odds with much of the experience and statements of officers who continued to serve following (Re)Unification. Officers who present their works primarily in terms of their local responsibilities, expectations and more specifically to their unique and individual relationship and connection to their communities downplay the relevance of high-level policing policy. Based on a two-year ethnographic study of policing in a rural county in the German state of Brandenburg, this book explores the local nature of policing both in terms of how police officers imagine their communities to be and with reference to broader societal expectations and assumptions of what police, essentially, are, can effectively do, and should effectively do.

Author : Stephen Reames
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category :
ISBN : 9783843373944

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We are living in the era of community policing. Unfortunately, no extant scholarly literature has examined the effects of community policing practice in smaller, rural communities, especially in the rural West Texas area. Specifically, there is a need to broaden the scope of perspectives to gain more in- depth knowledge of rural community policing practice. In response, a survey was administered to both community leaders and law enforcement leaders in rural West Texas to rate their perception on current and future crime problems, police effectiveness, police training needs, and community leaders' involvement in police training. A discussion of two distinct opportunities that exist in rural West Texas are provided. Each opportunity can be combined and provide a duality of criminal justice services for the non-populous areas of Texas and of the United States. The first opportunity exist in a faith-based correctional facility and second in law enforcement training for rural West Texas.

Author : Vania A Ceccato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135005540

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Crime is often perceived as an urban issue rather than a problem that occurs in rural areas, but how far is this view tenable? This book explores the relationship between crime and community in rural areas and addresses the notion of safety as part of the community dynamics in such areas. Rural Crime and Community Safety makes a significant contribution to crime science and integrates a range of theories to understand patterns of crime and perceived safety in rural contexts. Based on a wealth of original research, Ceccato combines spatial methods with qualitative analysis to examine, in detail, farm and wildlife crime, youth related crimes and gendered violence in rural settings. Making the most of the expanding field of Criminology and of the growing professional inquiry into crime and crime prevention in rural areas; rural development; and the social sustainability of rural areas, this book builds a bridge by connecting Criminology and Human Geography. This book will be suitable for academics, students and practitioners in the fields of criminology, community safety, rural studies, rural development and gender studies.