ABSTRACT
Evidence-based policing is based on the straightforward, but powerful, idea that crime prevention and crime control policy should be based on what works best in promoting public safety, as determined by the best available scientific evidence. Bringing together leading academics and practitioners, this book explores a wide range of case studies from around the world that best exemplify the integration of scientific evidence in contemporary policing processes.
Chapters explore the transfer of scientific knowledge to the practice community, the role of officers in conducting police-led science, connection of work between police researchers and practitioners, and how evidence-based policing can be incorporated in daily police functions. The Globalization of Evidence-Based Policing is written for both researchers and practitioners interested in ensuring that scientific research is at center stage in policing. Agencies (including law enforcement agencies, research centers, and institutions of higher learning) can look to these case studies as road maps to better foster an evidence-based approach to crime prevention and crime control. Those already committed to evidence-based policing can look to these chapters to ensure that evidence-based policing is firmly institutionalized within their agencies.
Accessible and compelling, this book is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about and doing more to bring about evidence-based policing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |20 pages
Introduction
part I|71 pages
Transferring scientific knowledge to the practice community
chapter 2|16 pages
Globalizing evidence-based policing
chapter 5|19 pages
EMMIE and the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction
part II|57 pages
Empowering officers to conduct police-led science
chapter 6|16 pages
From practitioner to policymaker
chapter 7|11 pages
Creating a social network of change agents
chapter 9|14 pages
Evidence-based policing in Australia and New Zealand
part III|72 pages
Aligning the work of researchers and practitioners
chapter 10|13 pages
The LEADS Academics Program
chapter 11|12 pages
The benefits and challenges of embedding criminologists in crime analysis units
chapter 14|17 pages
Surveillance, action research, and Community Technology Oversight Boards
part IV|95 pages
Incorporating evidence-based policing in daily police functions
chapter 15|15 pages
Translating and institutionalizing evidence-based policing
chapter 18|22 pages
Statewide evidence-based policing
part |8 pages
Conclusion