Police as Problem Solvers
How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change
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- Hardcover
353 pages
- Release Date
30 December 2004
Summary
Faced with the problems associated with grinding poverty and a no-win drug war, police departments are adapting and changing. Foot patrol officers again walk the streets and talk to citizens, and neighborhood crime watches are valued as the eyes and ears of enforcers. Most seminal is the ““quiet revolution”” that has been called problem-oriented policing. This revolution makes police officers pioneering professionals who systematically study and address social problems in their localities. Co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781591471509 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1591471508 |
| Author: | Hans Toch, J.Douglas Grant |
| Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
| Imprint: | American Psychological Association |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 353 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 30 December 2004 |
| Weight: | 730g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 162mm x 238mm |
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About The Author
Hans Toch
Hans Toch is professor of psychology in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Albany. He is an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association as well as the American Society of Criminology. He has been president of the American Association of Forensic Psychology. He was also the Project Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Crime and Delinquency at Sacramento, California.
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