‘Policing Is a Profession of the Heart’: Evangelicalism and Modern American Policing

Ideas in American Policing Place-based Policing

Ideas in American Policing presents commentary and insight from leading criminologists on issues of interest to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. The papers published in this series are from the Police Foundation lecture series of the same name. Points of view in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Police Foundation. The ...

American Policing Under Fire: Misconduct and Reform

A cluster of recent police killings of African American men has sparked an unprecedented amount of public debate regarding policing in the United States. Critics and protesters have made sweeping allegations about the police; a presidential commission has been formed to study police misconduct; and reforms are being debated. These events provide a backdrop for this article’s review of recent po...

Ideas in American Policing By Lawrence W . Sherman Evidence - Based Policing

The new paradigm of “evidence-based medicine” holds important implications for policing. It suggests that just doing research is not enough and that proactive efforts are required to push accumulated research evidence into practice through national and community guidelines. These guidelines can then focus inhouse evaluations of what works best across agencies, units, victims, and officers. Stat...

Cpc : Crime , Policing & Citizenship Intelligent Policing

POLICING THE CRISIS 30 YEARS ON Still Policing the Crisis?

Writing this has been a troubling experience. Returning to a text 30 years on in this way combines intellectual, political and personal refl ections in an unsettling way. These range from a powerful attachment to processes of collective or collaborative intellectual work that Policing the Crisis (PTC; Hall et al., 1978) embodied and enhanced to a rather depressed sense of how many things the bo...