Community Policing, Chicago Style / Edition 1

by Wesley G. Skogan, Susan M. Hartnett

Overview

Police departments across the country are busily "reinventing" themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing". This approach to policing involves organizational decentralization, new channels of communication with the public, a commitment to responding to what the community thinks their priorities ought to be, and the adoption of a broad problem-solving approach to neighborhood issues. Police departments that succeed in adopting this new stance have an entirely different relationship to the public that they serve. Chicago made the transition, embarking on what is now the nation's largest and most impressive community policing program. This book, the first to examine such a project, looks in depth at all aspects of the program—why it was adopted, how it was adopted, and how well it has worked.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195105605
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/07/1997
Series:	Studies in Crime and Public Policy
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile:	1290L (what's this?)

About the Author

Wesley G. SkoganR, the author of numerous books and articles on the relationship between crime and society, is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.
Susan M. Hartnett was the Project Director for the Chicago study at Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research.

Table of Contents

1. Policing at Century's End2. Police and Politics in Chicago3. Crafting a Program4. Bringing Officers on Board5. Citizen Involvement6. The Program in Action7. The Influence of CAPS on Neighborhood Life8. Reinventing Policing, Chicago Style

Editorial Reviews

With the support of the Clinton administration, the highly visible cop of yesteryear is back walking the local streets (and representing its ethnic diversity)<-->as the cover illustrates. The contemporary wave of community policing requires reinventing of police departments and citizen involvement. As a case in point, Skogan and Hartnett (Northwestern U.) evaluate the transitional experience of a major American city with the largest community policing program in the nation. They address such issues as why Chicago adopted this policy, the politics and logistics involved in its planning and implementation, the commitment required, why such experiments have failed elsewhere, and its impact. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

"Skogan and Harnett offer here yet another exemplary, extraordinary study that incorporates both fascinating particulars and generalizable findings. It is well-designed and subtly orchestrated and should become required reading in the social sciences. Not only is it engaging and clearly written, it contains hopeful notes about the future of urban policing...Community Policing, Chicago Style masterfully sets out an experimental design, identifies the elements of the program, asserts a logical model by which program and results are connected, presents abundant data clearly, and is cautious about generalization and modest about findings."—Americal Journal of Sociology

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