Quint Thurman, Edmund F. Mcgarrell

Community Policing in a Rural Setting

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781583605349
• ISBN-10: 1583605347
• Artikelnr.: 33147985

Autorenporträt

Quint Thurman, Edmund F. McGarrell

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: The Challenges of Community Policing in Rural and Small-Town
America 1. Community Policing in a Rural Setting: An Introduction 2.
Operationalizing Community Policing in Rural America: Sense and Nonsense 3.
The State of Community Policing in Small Towns and Rural Areas 4.
Facilitators and Obstacles to Community Policing in Rural America Section
II: Organizational Change and Community Policing 5. Assessing the Need for
Organizational Change in Rural American Police Agencies 6. The Work
Routines and Citizen Interactions of Small-Town and Rural Police Officers
7. Celebrating Agency Culture: Engaging a Traditional Cop's Heart in
Organizational Change 8. Getting to Know Your Employees Better 9. Linking
the Right Person to the Right Job: Selecting, Training, and Retaining
Officers to Do Community Policing Section III: The Community Role in
Community Policing 10. The Police and Community Organizing 11. The Benefits
of Community Policing in Rural Oklahoma 12. Getting to Know Your Community
Through Citizen Surveys and Focus Group Interviews 13. Problem-Solving Auto
Theft in Unincorporated Hillsborough County, Florida 14. Innovative
Community Crime Prevention: An Overview of the Mountlake Terrace Neutral
Zone-AmeriCorps Program Section IV: Rural Community Policing and the Future
15. Future Challenges: The Urbanization of Rural America Appendix A: Police
Department Employee Survey Instrument Appendix B: Police Department
Employee Focus Group Questionnaire Appendix C: Community Survey Instrument
Appendix D: Community Focus Group Questionnaire