| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Section I: The Challenges of Community Policing in Rural and Small-Town America; 1 Community Policing in a Rural Setting: An Introduction; 2 Operationalizing Community Policing in Rural America: Sense and Nonsense; 3 The State of Community Policing in Small Towns and Rural Areas; 4 Facilitators and Obstacles to Community Policing in Rural America; Section II: Organizational Change and Community Policing; 5 Assessing the Need for Organizational Change in Rural American Police Agencies. |
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6 The Work Routines and Citizen Interactions of Small-Town and Rural Police Officers7 Celebrating Agency Culture: Engaging a Traditional Cop''s Heart in Organizational Change; 8 Getting to Know Your Employees Better; 9 Linking the Right Person to the Right Job: Selecting, Training, and Retaining Officers to Do Community Policing; Section III: The Community Role in Community Policing; 10 The Police and Community Organizing; 11 The Benefits of Community Policing in Rural Oklahoma; 12 Getting to Know Your Community Through Citizen Surveys and Focus Group Interviews. |
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13 Problem-Solving Auto Theft in Unincorporated Hillsborough County, Florida14 Innovative Community Crime Prevention: An Overview of the Mountlake Terrace Neutral Zone-AmeriCorps Program; Section IV: Rural Community Policing and the Future; 15 Future Challenges: The Urbanization of Rural America; Appendix A: Police Department Employee Survey Instrument; Appendix B: Police Department Employee Focus Group Questionnaire; Appendix C: Community Survey Instrument; Appendix D: Community Focus Group Questionnaire; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Authors. |
| Summary |
The authors provide stepping stones for rural and small-town agencies to make the organizational changes needed for community policing to take hold. The book introduces the concept of community policing and its many benefits to the agencies and communities that adopt it. Important issues discussed include the challenge of organizational change, as well as examples of community policing obstacles and successes, and the future of community policing in the 21st century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Community policing -- United States.
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Community policing. |
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United States. |
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Police, Rural -- United States.
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Police, Rural. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
McGarrell, Edmund F., 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thurman, Quint. Community Policing in a Rural Setting. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9781583605349 |
| ISBN |
9781317523932 (electronic book) |
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1317523938 (electronic book) |
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9781315722085 (e-book) |
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1315722089 (e-book) |
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9781583605349 |
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