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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 viol

Title Police problem solving / [compiled by] Quint C. Thurman, J.D. Jamieson.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher London
New York : Routledge
Creation Date 2015
Notes First published 2004 by Anderson Publishing.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
English
Content Cover
Title
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
Section I Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction to Police Problem Solving
Chapter 2 The Applicability of Police Problem Solving to Crime Problems
Chapter 3 Police Problem Solving and Its Applicability to Domestic Security
Section II Police Patrol Officer-Based Problem Solving
Chapter 4 Problem Solving Disorderly Youth
Chapter 5 Problem Solving Auto Theft in Unincorporated Hillsborough County, Florida: Ten Years of Data
Chapter 6 Problem Solving for First Responders
Chapter 7 Preparing Supervisors for Effective Problem Solving
Section III Problem Solving with Community-Based PartnershipsChapter 8 Problem Solving Emergent Gangs in Suburban Washington State: The Mountlake Terrace Neutral Zone-AmeriCorps Program
Chapter 9 Problem Solving Prostitution in a Problem Neighborhood
Chapter 10 Problem Solving and Crime Prevention in Public Housing
Section IV Advanced Problem Solving and Problem-Specific Strategies
Chapter 11 Foretelling Crimes of the Future Using Crimes of the Past: Analyzing Repeat Victimization
Chapter 12 Problem Solving Investigations
Chapter 13 Geographic Profiling as Problem Solving for Serial CrimeChapter 14 Problem Solving Terrorism Vulnerability
Section V Problem Solving in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 15 Limitations, Challenges, and the Future of Police Problem Solving
About the Authors
Index
Extent 1 online resource (176 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010707484705171
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