Crime Control Theory, Police Practice, and Police Success
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What prevailing theories of crime control exist?
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How do crime control theories affect policing functions and success?
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How does research support the concept that crime control theories positively (or negatively) affect policing functions?
Explain and justify concepts with supporting proofs.
Key Reads: Choose at least one for reference for reference.
◾Evidence-Based Policing (Lawrence Sherman, 1998)
◾Translating Police Research Into Practice (Cynthia Lum, 2009)
◾Receptivity to Research in Policing (Cynthia Lum, Cody Telep, Christopher Koper and Julie Grieco, 2011)
◾Police Science: Towards a New Paradigm (David Weisburd and Peter Neyroud, 2011)
◾Police Foundation President and CEBCP Senior Fellow Jim Bueermann’s “Being Smart on Crime with Evidence-Based Policing” for the National Institute of Justice.
◾A Tipping Point for ‘Totally Evidenced Policing’ (Lawrence Sherman, 2015)


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