Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511489334

Over the last three decades American policing has gone through a period of significant change and innovation. In what is a relatively short historical time frame the police began to reconsider their fundamental mission, the nature of the core strategies of policing, and the character of their relationships with the communities that they serve. This volume brings together leading police scholars to examine eight major innovations which emerged during this period: community policing, broken windows policing, problem oriented policing, pulling levers policing, third party policing, hot spots policing, Compstat and evidence-based policing. Including advocates and critics of each of the eight police innovations, this comprehensive book assesses the evidence on impacts of police innovation on crime and public safety, the extent of the implementation of these new approaches in police departments, and the dilemmas these approaches have created for police management. This book will appeal to students, scholars and researchers.

"The book works rather well and effectively showcases the spectrum and the current state of law enforcement policy innovations."
Thomas W. Nolan, Criminal Justice Review

"This volume brings together paired 'advocate' and 'critic' essays for each of eight major innovations."
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Frontmatter
pp i-viii
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Contents
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List of figures
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List of tables
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Notes on contributors
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1 - Introduction: understanding police innovation
pp 1-24
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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Part I - Community policing
pp 25-26
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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2 - Advocate The promise of community policing
pp 27-43
- By Wesley G. Skogan, Professor of Political Science and a member of the research faculty University's Institute for Policy Research
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3 - Critic Community policing: a skeptical view
pp 44-74
- By Stephen Mastrofski, Professor of Public and International Affairs George Mason University
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Part II - Broken windows policing
pp 75-76
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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4 - Advocate Of “broken windows,” criminology, and criminal justice
pp 77-97
- By William H. Sousa, Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice University of Nevada Las Vegas, George L. Kelling, Professor in the School of Criminal Justice Rutgers University, Newark, faculty chair of the Police Institute at Rutgers University
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5 - Critic Incivilities reduction policing, zero tolerance, and the retreat from coproduction: weak foundations and strong pressures
pp 98-114
- By Ralph B. Taylor, Teaches and Researches in the Department of Criminal Justice Temple University
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Part III - Problem-oriented policing
pp 115-116
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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6 - Advocate Science, values, and problem-oriented policing: why problem-oriented policing?
pp 117-132
- By John E. Eck, Professor in the Division of Criminal Justice University of Cincinnati
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7 - Critic Problem-oriented policing: the disconnect between principles and practice
pp 133-152
- By Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park
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Part IV - Pulling levers policing
pp 153-154
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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8 - Advocate Old wine in new bottles: policing and the lessons of pulling levers
pp 155-170
- By David M. Kennedy, a senior researcher at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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9 - Critic Partnership, accountability, and innovation: clarifying Boston's experience with pulling levers
pp 171-188
- By Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Christopher Winship, Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Fellow Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
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Part V - Third-party policing
pp 189-190
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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10 - Advocate The case for third-party policing
pp 191-206
- By Lorraine Mazerolle, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Griffith University, Janet Ransley, Senior Lecturer in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice Griffith University
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11 - Critic Third-party policing: a critical view
pp 207-222
- By Tracey L. Meares, Max Pam Professor of Law and Director, Center for Studies in Criminal Justice University of Chicago
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Part VI - Hot spots policing
pp 223-224
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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12 - Advocate Hot spots policing as a model for police innovation
pp 225-244
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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13 - Critic The limits of hot spots policing
pp 245-264
- By Dennis P. Rosenbaum, Professor of Criminal Justice and Director of the Center for Research in Law and Justice University of Illinois
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Part VII - Compstat
pp 265-266
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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14 - Advocate Compstat's innovation
pp 267-283
- By Eli B. Silverman, Professor Emeritus John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of City University of New York
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15 - Critic Changing everything so that everything can remain the same: Compstat and American policing
pp 284-302
- By David Weisburd, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem and University of Maryland, College Park, Stephen D. Mastrofski, Professor of Public and International Affairs George Mason University, James J. Willis, Rosann Greenspan
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Part VIII - Evidence-based policing
pp 303-304
- By David Weisburd, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Maryland, College Park, Anthony A. Braga, Senior Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management of the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
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16 - Advocate Evidence-based policing for crime prevention
pp 305-321
- By Brandon C. Welsh, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice University of Massachusetts Lowell
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17 - Critic Improving police through expertise, experience, and experiments
pp 322-338
- By Mark H. Moore, Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy and Management Harvard's Kennedy School of Government
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