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Which Evidence? What Knowledge? Broadening Inform-ation about the Police and Their Interventions

from Part X - Evidence-Based/ Risk-Focused Policing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2019

By
Jack R. Greene
Edited by
David Weisburd  and
Anthony A. Braga
David Weisburd
Affiliation:
George Mason University, Virginia
Anthony A. Braga
Affiliation:
Northeastern University, Boston
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Summary

Observations while attending several crime analysis meetings of a major city police department provide insight into questions of sources and importance of knowledge in policing. This observable knowledge is used by the police as they grapple with the ongoing complexities of public safety, in this case in an urban city.

At each meeting, two forms of knowledge framed discussions of crime and disorder problems. Framing as a sociological and communications theory relies on ideas associated with understanding how attitudes and behavior are shaped by the information or form of knowledge presented (Goffman, 1986; Scheufele & Iyengar, 2014).

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Police Innovation
Contrasting Perspectives
 , pp. 457 - 482
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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