Contemporary Policing: Controversies, Challenges, and Solutionspresents a broad range of up-to-date articles on new policing strategies, promising approaches to the problem of crime, challenges facing the police from within and outside the organization, policing innovations, and issues of police deviance and ethics.
Editors Quint C. Thurman and Jihong Zhao have chosen key selections from notable scholars such as Lawrence W. Sherman, Samuel Walker, Ronald V. Clarke, former Minneapolis police chief Anthony Bouza, and others to examine how policing has responded to a myriad of challenges since the late 1990s--including crime and disorder, racial profiling, police use of deadly force, gangs, corruption, drug abuse, and sexual misconduct. The article topics range from problem-solving and problem-oriented criminal investigations to CompStat and geographic profiling.
Each Part begins with an Introduction. General Introduction Part I: New Policing Strategies 1. Trust and Confidence in Criminal Justice Lawrence W. Sherman 2. Defining Police Strategies: Problem Solving, Problem-Oriented Policing, and Community-Oriented Policing Ronald V. Clarke 3. New Skyline Eli B. Silverman 4. The Third Generation of Community Policing: Moving Through Innovation, Diffusion, and Institutionalization Willard M. Oliver Part II: Promising Approaches to Crime Reduction and Prevention 5. Policing for Crime Prevention Lawrence W. Sherman 6. Crime and Disorder in Drug Hot Spots: Implications for Theory and Practice in Policing David Weisburd and Lorraine Green Mazerolle 7. Focusing on Prey Rather Than Predators: A Problem-Oriented Response to Repeat Victimization Ron W. Glensor, Ken J. Peak, and Mark E. Correia 8. Screening out Criminal Offenders: An Evaluation of Crime-Free Multi-Family Housing in Tacoma