
Police as Problem Solvers
How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change
American Psychological Association (Publisher)
Published on 31. December 2004
Book
Hardback
353 pages
978-1-59147-150-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. Cops become social scientists who work with other agents in the community to address root causes of crime. Police as Problem Solvers is a lively yet scholarly book written by two pioneers of the approach. The authors conducted the legendary first experiment in which police officers became researchers and ""agents of change."" Using verbatim transcripts of officers working through problems both in the community and among their own ranks, they recount highlights of the experiment and traces its impact. This revolution has implications not only for social policy and criminal justice but also for work reform because it expands the jobs of frontline workers (police officers), showing that authoritarian management is obsolete. This book is a gem that will be prized by social psychologists, criminologists, organizational consultants, and community activists.
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Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
730 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59147-150-9 (9781591471509)
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Previous edition
Hans Toch | J.Douglas Grant
Police as Problem Solvers
Book
06/1991
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
€109.13
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