Research Catalog

Title

• Community policing, Chicago style / Wesley G. Skogan, Susan M. Hartnett.

Author

Skogan, Wesley G.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Hartnett, Susan M.

Description

x, 258 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Police departments across the country are busily "reinventing" themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing". This approach to policing involves organizational decentralization, new channels of communication with the public, a commitment to responding to what the community thinks their priorities ought to be, and the adoption of a broad problem-solving approach to neighborhood issues. Police departments that succeed in adopting this new stance have an entirely different relationship to the public that they serve. Chicago made the transition, embarking on what is now the nation's largest and most impressive community policing program. This book, the first to examine such a project, looks in depth at all aspects of the program--why it was adopted, how it was adopted, and how well it has worked. --Publisher description.

Series Statement

• Studies in crime and public policy

Uniform Title

Studies in crime and public policy

Subject

• Chicago (Ill.). Police Department
• Community policing > Chicago
• Crime prevention > Chicago > Citizen participation
• Police administration > Chicago

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-253) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Policing at Century's End -- 2. Police and Politics in Chicago -- 3. Crafting a Program -- 4. Bringing Officers on Board -- 5. Citizen Involvement -- 6. Program in Action -- 7. Impact of CAPS on Neighborhood Life -- 8. Reinventing Policing, Chicago Style.

ISBN

0195105605 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^96027841^

OCLC

34951239

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library