Proactive Policing : Effects on Crime and Communities /

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Imprint:Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2018.
Description:1 online resource (409 pages)
Language:English
Series:A consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
Consensus study report.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11654135
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Other authors / contributors:Majmundar, Malay Kiran.
Weisburd, David.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Proactive Policing: Effects on Crime, Communities, and Civil Liberties.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Law and Justice.
ISBN:9780309467148
0309467144
0309467136
9780309467131
9780309467100
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-374).
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 19, 2018).
Summary:"Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in policing that began to emerge in the 1960s because of social unrest, rising crime rates, and growing skepticism regarding the effectiveness of standard approaches to policing. In response, beginning in the 1980s and 1990s, innovative police practices and policies that took a more proactive approach began to develop. This report uses the term "proactive policing" to refer to all policing strategies that have as one of their goals the prevention or reduction of crime and disorder and that are not reactive in terms of focusing primarily on uncovering ongoing crime or on investigating or responding to crimes once they have occurred. Proactive policing is distinguished from the everyday decisions of police officers to be proactive in specific situations and instead refers to a strategic decision by police agencies to use proactive police responses in a programmatic way to reduce crime. Today, proactive policing strategies are used widely in the United States. They are not isolated programs used by a select group of agencies but rather a set of ideas that have spread across the landscape of policing. Proactive Policing reviews the evidence and discusses the data and methodological gaps on: (1) the effects of different forms of proactive policing on crime; (2) whether they are applied in a discriminatory manner; (3) whether they are being used in a legal fashion; and (4) community reaction. This report offers a comprehensive evaluation of proactive policing that includes not only its crime prevention impacts but also its broader implications for justice and U.S. communities"--Publisher's description.
Other form:Print version: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Proactive Policing : Effects on Crime and Communities. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2018 9780309467131
Standard no.:10.17226/24928