The Future of Evidence-Based Policing

This book provides an overview of where evidence-based policing is today and how it is likely to develop.

David Weisburd (Edited by), Tal Jonathan-Zamir (Edited by), Gali Perry (Edited by), Badi Hasisi (Edited by)

9781108840354, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 June 2023

350 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.72 kg

Evidence-based policing (EBP) has become a key perspective for practitioners and researchers concerned with the future of policing. This volume provides both a review of where evidence-based policing stands today and a consideration of emerging trends and ideas likely to be important in the future. It includes comparative and international contributions, as well as researcher and practitioner perspectives. While emphasizing traditional evidence-based methods and approaches, the book also identifies barriers to the advancement of evidence-based policing and expands the vision of evidence-based policing by critically examining ethical and moral concerns and questions. The book's main focus is not on what has to happen in police agencies to advance EBP, but rather on an issue that has received far less attention - the science that is necessary to produce for EBP to be successfully integrated into policing.

1. The Future of Evidence-Based Policing: Introduction David Weisburd, Tal Jonathan-Zamir, Gali Perry, and Badi Hasisi
Part I. Taking Stock of Evidence-Based Policing: 2. Three Tiers for Evidence-Based Policing: Targeting 'Minimalist Policing with a Risk-Adjusted Disparity Index Lawrence Sherman
3. Re-Inventing Policing: Using Science to Transform Policing Peter Neyroud and David Weisburd
4. A Way Ahead: Re-Envisioning the Relationship Between Evidence-Based Policing and the Police Craft James Willis and Heather Toronjo
Part II. The Evidence for Evidence-Based Policing: 5. A Review of Systematic Reviews in Policing Cody W. Telep and David Weisburd
6. What Do We Know about Proactive Policing's Effects on Crime and Community: Drawing Conclusions from a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report David Weisburd, Anthony A. Braga, and Malay Majmundar
7. Rethinking the Role of the Community in Proactive Policing Charlotte Gill
Part III. Innovations in Tools of Evaluation and Assessment: 8. The Role of Randomized Experiments in Developing the Evidence for Evidence-Based Policing Lorraine Mazerolle, Elizabeth Eggins, Lorelei Hine, and Angela Higginson
9. The Potential Contribution of Subjective Causality to Policing Research: The Case of the Relationship between Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy Gali Perry, Tal Jonathan-Zamir, and James Willis
Part IV. Challenges of the Implementation of Evidence-Based Policing: 10. Practitioners' Inclination to Rely on Experience: What does this Mean for Evidence-Based Policing? Tal Jonathan-Zamir and David Weisburd
11. Implementing Evidence-Based Policing: Findings from a Process Evaluation of the EMUN Reform in the Israel Police Yael Litmanovitz, David Weisburd, and Badi Hasisi
12. Towards Implementing Evidence-Based Policing: Challenges in Latin America and Caribbean Laura Jaitman
13. Evidence-Based Policing and the Law: The American Perspective Rachel Harmon
Part V. The Practitioner's Perspective: 14. The Role of the 'Super Evidence Cop' in Evidence-Based Policing: The Israeli Case Simon Perry and Michael Wolfowitz
15. Looking Back on the Challenges to Evidence-Based Policing: A Chief's Perspective Darrel Stephens
16. Support for Evidence-Based Policing at the National Level – More Help Than Harm? James H. Burch
17. Conclusions: Police Science and the Future of Evidence-Based Policing David Weisburd, Tal Jonathan-Zamir, Gali Perry, and Badi Hasisi.

Subject Areas: Crime & criminology [JKV]