Global Perspectives on Crime Prevention and Community Resilience (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Scharff Peterson, Diana; Das, Dilip K.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume includes updated articles presented at the International Police Executive Symposium's 25th annual meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria in July, 2014.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315351476
• Artikelnr.: 50203591

Autorenporträt

Diana Scharff Peterson, PhD, has nearly 20 years of experience in higher education teaching in the areas of research methods; comparative criminal justice systems; race, gender, class, and crime; statistics; criminology; sociology; and drugs and behavior at seven different institutions of higher education. Dr. Peterson has been the chairperson of three different criminal justice programs over the past 15 years and has published in the areas of criminal justice, social work, higher education, sociology, business, and management. Her research interests include issues in policing (training and education) and community policing, assessment and leadership in higher education, family violence, and evaluation research and program development. She was Professor of Criminology and Graduate Program Director at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. She has published over 30 articles in areas of criminal justice, sociology, social work, business management, and higher education and is the Liaison and Representative for the International Police Executive Symposium (consultative status) for quarterly annual meetings at the United Nations meetings in New York City, Geneva, and Vienna including the Commission on the Status of Women in NewYork, New York. Dr. Peterson chaired and organized the 25th Annual Meeting of the International Police Executive Symposium entitled Crime Prevention & Community Resilience: Police Role with Victims, Youth, Ethnic Minorities and Other Partners, in Sophia, Bulgaria, July 27-August 1, 2014 (27 countries and 43 presenters). She formerly served as the Managing Editor of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. Dilip K. Das, PhD, is the President, International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), and was founding Editor-in-Chief of Police Practice and Research: An International Journal. After 14 years in the Indian Police Service as a Police Executive, including Chief of Police, he moved to the USA in 1979 where he achieved a second Master's Degree (in Criminal Justice) as well as a doctorate in the same discipline. Das has authored, edited, and co-edited more than 40 books, and numerous articles. He is the Series Editor for Advances in Police Theory and Practice and International Police Executive Symposium Co-Publications. He has traveled extensively throughout the world in comparative police research, as a visiting professor in various universities, including organizing annual conferences of the IPES, and as a Human Rights Consultant to the United Nations. Das has received several faculty excellence awards and was a Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Series Preface. Acknowledgments. Editors. Contributors.
Introduction. Section I: GLOBAL STRATEGIES FOR CRIME AND VIOLENCE
PREVENTION. Chapter 1: Coordinated Community Response to Domestic Violence
and Sexual Assault on the College. Chapter 2: Different Communities,
Different Approaches: Avoiding a 'one size fits all' Approach to
Neighborhood Policing Strategies. Chapter 3: Community-Based Participatory
Approach to Prevent Residential : Burglaries and House Robberies. Chapter
4: Crossing the Great Divide: The Development and Effectiveness of Working
Relationships between Law Enforcement Personnel and Academic Researchers.
Chapter 5: The B3W Matrix: Managing a More Effective Way to Tackle
Residential Burglary. Section II: BUILDING RESILIENCE AND ENGAGING
COMMUNITIES FOR VIOLENCE AND CRIME PREVENTION. Chapter 6: Managing Language
Barriers in Policing. Chapter 7: Community Policing and Vigilantism: Two
Alternative Strategies for Fighting Neighborhood Crime. Chapter 8: Policing
in Remote Australia: Is it Possible to Ignore Colonial Borderlines? Chapter
9: Multi-Sector Cooperation in Preventing Crime: The Case of South African
Neighborhood Watch As an Effective Crime Prevention Model. Section III:
ASSISTING SPECIAL POPULATIONS, WOMEN AND CRIME VICTIMS. Chapter 10: Human
Trafficking: A Global Examination of Sexual Exploitation, Corruption, and
Future Implications. Chapter 11: Building Community Resilience: Strategic
Role of Police with Bombing Victims. Chapter 12: Women in Criminal Justice:
Reality or Myth. Chapter 13: Strategies in Prevention of Crime against
Women in India-with Special Reference Telangana State. Chapter 14: The
Assessment of Capable Guardianship Measures against Bullying Victimization
in the School Environment. Section IV: PROMOTING BEST PRACTICES FOR POLICE
OFFICER SAFETY, ACCOUNTABILITY, EFFECTIVENESS, PROFESSIONALISM AND
RETENTION. Chapter 15: An Analysis of the Effects of On-Body Officer Camera
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