ABSTRACT
Offering a balanced approach to problem-solving issues in a complex and changing world, this book focuses specifically on the subject of problem solving in policing. Featured selections include chapters on domestic security, disorderly youth, auto theft, prostitution, gang delinquency and crime in public housing. Other notable selections discuss the role of supervising police personnel engaged in problem solving, advances in using this approach in criminal investigations, solving serial crimes, preparing for terrorism, and developing patrol officers as effective first responders to active violence.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |29 pages
Introduction
part |45 pages
Police Patrol Officer-Based Problem Solving
part |25 pages
Problem Solving with Community-Based Partnerships
part |41 pages
Advanced Problem Solving and Problem-Specific Strategies
part |8 pages
Problem Solving in the Twenty-First Century