Police Innovation
Contrasting Perspectives

Reviews innovations in policing over the last four decades, bringing together top policing scholars to discuss whether police should adopt these approaches.

David Weisburd (Edited by), Anthony A. Braga (Edited by)

9781108405911, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 August 2019

582 pages, 11 b/w illus. 6 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.84 kg

Over the last forty years, policing has gone through a period of significant change and innovation. The emergence of new strategies has also raised issues about effectiveness and efficiency in policing, and many of these proactive strategies have become controversial as citizens have asked whether they are also fair and unbiased. Updated and expanded for the second edition, this volume brings together leading police scholars to examine these key innovations in policing. Including advocates and critics of each innovation, this comprehensive book assesses the impacts of police innovation on crime and public safety, the extent of implementation of these new approaches in police agencies, the dilemmas these approaches have created for police management, and their impacts on communities.

Introduction: the context of police innovation David Weisburd and Anthony Braga
Part I. Community Policing: 1. Advocate: community policing Wesley Skogan
2. Critic: community policing: a skeptical view Stephen Mastroski
Part II. Broken Windows Policing: 3. Advocate: of 'broken windows' criminology and criminal justice William Sousa and George Kelling
4. Critic: incivilities reduction policing, zero tolerance, and the retreat from coproduction: even weaker foundations and stronger pressures Ralph Taylor
Part III. Procedural Justice Policing: 5. Advocate: procedural justice policing Tom Tyler and Tracey Meares
6. Critic: the limits of procedural justice David Thacher
Part IV. Problem-Oriented Policing: 7. Advocate: why problem-oriented policing John Eck
8. Critic: problem-oriented policing: the disconnect between principles and practice Anthony Braga and David Weisburd
Part V. Pulling Levers (Focused Deterrence) Policing: 9. Advocate: policing and the lessons of focused deterrence David M. Kennedy
10. Critic: partnership, accountability, and innovation: clarifying Boston's experience with focused deterrence Anthony Braga
Part VI. Third-Party Policing: 11. Advocate: third-party policing Lorraine Green Mazerolle and Janet Ransley
12. Critic: third-party policing: a critical view Tracey L. Meares
Part VII. Compstat: 13. Advocate: Compstat's innovation Eli Silverman
14. Critic: changing everything so that everything can remain the same: Compstat and American policing David Weisburd, Stephen Mastrofski, James J. Willis and Rosanne Greenspan
Part VIII. Hot Spots Policing: 15. Advocate: hot spots policing as a model for police innovation Anthony Braga and David Weisburd
16. Critic: the limits of hot spots policing Dennis Rosenbaum
Part IX. Predictive Policing: 17. Advocate: predictive policing Jerry Ratcliffe
18. Critic predictive policing: where's the evidence Rachel Boba
Part X. Evidence-Based / Risk-Focused Policing: 19. Advocate: evidence-based policing for crime prevention Brandon Welsh
20. Critic which evidence? What knowledge? Broadening information about the police and their interventions Jack Greene
Part XI. Technology Policing: 21. Advocate technology in policing Barak Ariel
22. Critic: the limits of police technology Cynthia Lum and Chris Koper
Conclusion: police innovation and the future of policing David Weisburd and Anthony Braga.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP], Crime & criminology [JKV], Social work [JKSN]