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Book cover for The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing The Oxford Handbook of Police and Policing
    Academy of Experimental Criminology (AEC)504, 512
    Accelerated Hiring, Education, and Deployment62
    Accountability and legitimacy15–21
      individual officer behavior, oversight of16–19
      institutional accountability for police performance15–16
    Accreditation, control of police misconduct327
    Accumulative harms133
    African Americans
      community policing and7–8
      disadvantages of as suspects484
      drug markets, poverty and36, 39
      police legitimacy, view of250
      police officers59
      police shootings of61
      promotion of57
      urban drug markets, community race and status40–42
      view of police363
    Afro-American Patrolmen's League59
    Afro-Carribeans, illegal immigration and local policing412
    ALLFEDS database292
    ALLSTATES database292
    American Bar Foundation471
    American Revolution, police authority217
    Anti-authoritarian force, policing as228–30
    Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 198839–40
    Anti-Gang Initiative62
    Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA)412
    Anti-war protests58
    Applied theories of organizations73–76
    Arab Americans, police race relations354–55
    Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police (AACOP)289–90
    Arizona, illegal immigration and local policing
    Arrest-related deaths, TASER and286
    Asian Americans, police race relations353
    ASIS International583
    Assessing Police Use of Force Policy and Outcomes266
    Assessment, problem-oriented policing107–8
    Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)521
    Association of European Police Colleges (AEPC)613–14
    "Audience legitimacy254
    Austerity budgets, private policing in public spaces578
    Austria
      Federal Criminal Police Office612
      Neustadt University of Applied Sciences in Vienna617
    Austro-Hungarian Empire608
    Bahn, Charles449
    Banishment, practices of in Seattle597
    Bateson, Gregory537
    Beccaria, Cesare634
    Berlin Wall, fall of611
    Black box evaluations, racial profiling400
    Blackwater shootings582
    Blankenburg, Rudolph55
    Blankenship, Betty59
    Block, Richard449
    Booth, Charles522
    Boston
      police strike57
      systematic social observation of the police473
    Boston Gun Project113
    Boston Police Department
      community surveys, use of to study policing451
    Braithwaite, John634
    Bratton, William318
      Compstat and63
      order maintenance policing11
      quality of life policing186
      zero tolerance and181
    Britain, "Anti-Social Behavior" initiative129
    British Home Office460
    Broken windows thesis25, 2, 124, 128
      beyond broken windows131
      community policing and151
      counterterrorism and636
      disorder, effect on crime130
      experimental designs, use of to study police interventions500–501
      space, policing of594
    "Broken Windows" (Wilson and Kelling)500–501
    Brokering access, police authority and223–24
    Brown v. Board of Education177
    Bureaucracy, police organizations70–76
    Bureau of Investigation56
    Bureau of Justice, Police-Public Contact Survey314
    Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)77, 438
      community surveys, use of to study policing451
      Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics440
      Hispanics and police race relations350
      Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS)267
    Burgess, Ernest537
    Burglary, household459
    Bush, George H. W.60
    Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program40
    California
      "Case Law Today288
    Capitalism70
    Carnegie Steel Plant573
    Causes of Delinquency (Hirschi)253
    Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA)436
    Center for Policing Terrorism624
    Center for Problem-Oriented Policing13, 288
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention287
    Central European Police Academy614
    Central Park Police Force137
    CEWs (Conducted Electrical Weapons). See TASER
    Chandler Police Department (Arizona)291
    Chapman, Robert623
    Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department114
    Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS)11
    Chicago Police Department, Mobile Strike Force370
    Chicago, University of539
    Chinese Americans, police race relations353
    Chronic health conditions, persons with199
    Cincinnati, Ohio
      police race relations342
      Policing in Cincinnati Project472, 476
      racial profiling, traffic and pedestrian stops393
      systematic social observation of the police480
    Citizen input, community policing154
    Citizen reviews, control of police misconduct and325–26
    Civil proceedings, police misconduct, control of323–24
    Civil Rights Movement6
    Cleveland, order maintenance policing127
    Clinton Administration63
    Clinton, Bill152
    Close Circuit Television (CCTV)595
    Cochrane Collaboration504
    Coercive isomorphism72
    Coffal, Elizabeth59
    Coicaud, Jean-Marc239
    Cole, Catherine136
    College of American Pathologists287
    Colorado, Columbine School shootings179
    Colorado, University of
      Blueprints program63
    Colquhoun, Patrick519
    Columbine School shootings179
    Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)17, 288, 303, 327
    Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice472–73
    Committee to Review Research on Policy Policy and Practices19–20, 114
    Compositional theory, police race relations344–45
    Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 197041
    Compstat
      police accountability and legitimacy and15–16, 20
      police organizations and75, 84
      supervisors and318
      zero tolerance and181
    Concrete resources, police legitimacy and244
    Conducted Electrical Weapons (CEWs). See TASER
    Conducted Energy Devices (CEDs)275
    Confederation of European Security Services (CoESS)576–77
    Conflict theory, police race relations348
    Contingency, ethnographies of policing520–22
    Cooper, Sally61
    Core technology, defined89, 5
    Council of Europe, European Code of Police Ethics608
    Counter-insurgency (COIN) actions225
    Counterintelligence Operations (COINTELPRO)225
    Cover, John H.283
    Crack cocaine60
    CRASH unit (LAPD)370
    Crime and Justice: A Review of Research504
    Crime, community policing and generally153
    Crime mapping83
    Crime prevention effects, problem-oriented policing and114–16
    Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED)156
    Crime rates
      1960s to mid-1980s6
    Criminalization, mental illness and201–3
    Criminal proceedings, police misconduct322–23
    "Criminological Theories: The Truth as Told by Mark Twain" (Gottfredson)260–61
    Crisis intervention teams (CITs)198
    Culpability, relevance of203
    Customs and Border Protection63
    Data collection, racial profiling385–86
    Davis, Edward E.510
    Dearborn, Michigan
      Arab Americans, police race relations354
    Decision making, policing vulnerable populations203
    Deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill128, 201
    Democratization
      Central and Eastern Europe, policing in610–11
    Denver, systematic social observation of the police477
    Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
      Department of Justice (DOJ), collaboration with629
      police authority and225
    Department of Justice (DOJ)
      Civil Rights Division17
      criminal proceedings322
      Department of Homeland Security (DHS), collaboration with629
      Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program40
      Operation Ceasefire and113
      police coercion and444
      terrorism and623
    Dialogical enterprise, policing as228–30
    Disadvantage, community
    Disparate impact discrimination, racial profiling387
    Disparate treatment discrimination, racial profiling387
    Distributive justice, police legitimacy and244
    Diversification
      private policing in public spaces575–76, 579–80
        Table 25.1 Services Provided by the Security Goods and Services Sector580
    Domestic violence, policing
      experimental designs503
    "Don't ask, don't tell" policies417, 423
    Douglas, William127
    Dragnet (tv show)593
    Drug Abatement Response Team (DART)502
    Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)60–61
    Drug problems, experimental designs and policing places with501–3
    Druze Arabs, Israel340
    Duchamp, Marcel5
    Dyzenhaus, David239
    Early warning systems, control of police misconduct320–21
    Educational role of the police137
    Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Program40
    Eighteenth Amendment178
    Emotions, ethnographies of policing and536
    Empirical principle, problem-oriented policing117
    Enforcement.
    England and Wales
      Audit Commission16
      police community support officers (PCSOs)576
      Special Constabulary Act of 1831576
    Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics (BJS)440
    Environmental characteristics, restraint and291–93
      political conditions291
      societal culture292
    Erikson, Kai Theodor174
    Ethnographies of policing518–48
      articles524–32
        Table 23.3 salient ethnographic chapters and articles on policing531
      Ethnographies of policing (Cont.)emotions and536
      gender considerations527
      New Orleans Police Department530
      occupational ethnographic studies524–32
        Table 23.1 ethnographic monographs with a police occupation focus526
      officially recorded data (ORD)520
      organizational ethnographic studies524–32
        Table 23.2 ethnographic monographs with a police organizational focus528
      race considerations527
      Table 23.1 ethnographic monographs with a police occupation focus526
      Table 23.2 ethnographic monographs with a police organizational focus528
      Table 23.3 salient ethnographic chapters and articles on policing531
      Wickersham report519
    European Code of Police Ethics608
    European Commission617
    European Police Office (EUROPOL)613
    European Union
      expansion of615
      Frontex Agency613
    Evidence-Based Policing Matrix505–8
      FIGURE 22.1 The evidence-based policing matrix507
      FIGURE 22.2 The evidence-based police matrix (experiments only)508
    Evidence, systematic social observation of the police483
    Evolving police strategies, community policing and149–50
    "The Evolving Strategy of Policing" (Kelling and Moore)148
    Executive Session on Policing8–9
    Experimental designs, use of to study police interventions497–517
      Campbell Collaboration504, 512
      Cochrane Collaboration504
      domestic violence, policing503
      Drug Abatement Response Team (DART)502
      drug problems, policing places with501–3
      Evidence-Based Policing Matrix505–8
        FIGURE 22.1 The evidence-based policing matrix507
        FIGURE 22.2 The evidence-based police matrix (experiments only)508
      history of police experiments498–503
        domestic violence, policing503
        Drug Abatement Response Team (DART)502
        drug problems, policing places with501–3
        Jersey City DMAP experiment502
        Kansas City "raid" experiment501–2
        "Koper Curve500
        Martinson Report498
        Newark Foot Patrol Experiment500, 512
        Philadelphia foot patrol experiment501
        San Diego experiment502
      institutionalizing experimental research in policing503–5
        systematic reviews of experimentation504–5
      Jersey City DMAP experiment502
      Kansas City "raid" experiment501–2
      "Koper Curve500
      Martinson Report498
      Minneapolis Hot Spots Experiment497, 512
      Newark Foot Patrol Experiment500, 512
      Philadelphia foot patrol experiment501
      Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN)502
      San Diego experiment502
      Spousal Assault Replication experiments512
      systematic reviews of experimentation504–5
    Experimental methods to obtain evidence, zero tolerance and policing192
    Fairness-legitimacy nexus563
    "Fare beaters" (New York City)11
    Fear of crime
      age and gender462
      community surveys, use of to study policing461–62
      "threat" definitions of crime461
      zero tolerance and policing183
    Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)56–57
      Counterintelligence Operations (COINTELPRO)225
      terrorism and22
    Federal Housing Administration (FHA)36
    Firth, Raymond537
    Focus, ethnographies of policing520–22
    Fogelson, Robert126
    Formalization, structure of police organizations81
    Foucault, Michel223
    Fouche, Joseph608
    Franklin, Ben185
    French Revolution, police authority217
    Frontex Agency613
    Funding Accelerated for Smaller Towns62
    Fusions, liberal-consent democracies224–26
    Gang drug-dealing organizations38
    Gang violence, Boston Police Department Operation Ceasefire112–14
    Garrity v. New Jersey319
    Gary, Indiana
      systematic social observation of the police471
    Gascon, George292
    Geller, William280
    Generalizability, systematic social observation of the police487–88
    Geographic focus, community policing156
    Geographic information systems (GIS)597–98
    Geographic settings, restraint and291–92
    German Police University in Muenster617
    Germany
      Federal Criminal Police Office612
      Federal Police612
      Ruhr University Bochum617
    Glendale Police Department (Arizona)291
    Globalization, private policing in public spaces580–81
    "Good faith" exception to exclusionary rule60
    Gorbachev, Mikhail610
    Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)438
    Governmental authority, police authority and222–23
    Great Recession of 2008148, 630
    Greene, Jack631
    Green, Malice344
    Group-position thesis, police race relations342
    Habsburg Monarchy607
    Harmonization, private policing in public spaces583–84
    Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914178
    Harvard University148
    Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing111
    History of police, recent3–33
      accountability and legitimacy15–21
        individual officer behavior, oversight of16–19
        institutional accountability for police performance15–16
      crime rates, 1960s to mid-1980s6
      individual officer behavior, oversight of
      recent history of the police
    "Hit rate," searches and seizures395
    Homeland, American view of640, 3
    Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency (HSEMA)624
    Homeless population, policing199
    Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC)36
    Homestead Riots (1892)573
    Homogenization76
    Hoover, Herbert56
    Hoover, J. Edgar57
    Hot spots policing451–52
      Kansas City Patrol Experiment14
      Minneapolis Hot Spots Experiment497, 512
      Minnesota Hot Spots Patrol Experiment14
      zero tolerance and191
    Houston, Texas
      community surveys, use of to study policing457, 463
    Hungary, Civil Guard612
    Hurricane Katrina aftermath91, 19
    I-95 corridor of Eastern Seaboard, racial profiling384–85
    Illegal immigration and local policing409–29
      Afro-Carribeans412
      Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA)412
      California's Proposition187, 412
      communities, enforcement of immigration laws418–19
      devolution of immigration enforcement authority410
      "don't ask, don't tell" policies417, 423
      federal and local law enforcement, partnerships between410
      history of undocumented immigration and local policing411–14
        immigration-crime nexus, Latino paradox and412–14
      Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA)412, 415
      Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)414–15
      inconsistencies in enforcing immigration laws419–20
      local law enforcement414–17
        communities, effects of local law enforcement involvement on422–23
        communities, enforcement of immigration laws418–19
        immigrant cooperation with, social costs421–22
      "mixed-status" households423
      social costs of immigration enforcement420–23
        effects of local law enforcement involvement on communities422–23
        immigrant cooperation with local law enforcement421–22
    Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA)412, 415
    Illinois Crime Survey56
    Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA)414–15
    Indianapolis, systematic social observation of the police481
    Individualistic approach, theories of police misconduct
      police corruption307
    Individual officer behavior, oversight of16–19
    Information, community policing and158–59
    Infrequent events, systematic social observation of the police486–87
    Inner city, policing and race362–82
      policy recommendations371–76
        identification and discipline of officers who mistreat citizens373–75
        procedural justice as administrative mandate372–73
        publicizing incidents of wrongdoing375
      progressive policing model366
      urban populace, earning and maintaining respect of365
    Institute of Clinical Justice and Criminology435
    Institutional accountability for police performance15–16
    Institutionalized organizations, police legitimacy559
    Instrumental effectiveness, police legitimacy556–57
    Intelligence-led policing172
    International City/County Management Association (ICMA)434–35
      Municipal Yearbook435
    International organizations, community policing7
    Iron cage metaphor, police organizations69–76, 88
    Isomorphic, defined89, 3
    Israel
      Muslim Arabs340
    Jacob, Herbert449
    Jersey City DMAP experiment502
    Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs)22, 225
    Kansas City Police Department (KCPD)434–35
      General Administrative Survey of Police Practice435
    Kansas City "raid" experiment501–2
    Kennedy School of Government8–9
    Kerner Commission8, 58
    Kimmerer, Clark590
    King, Martin Luther, Jr.71
    Kohler, Fred127
    "Koper Curve500
    Landlords, urban drug markets and43
    Latin America, "blue zones231, 2
    Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA)58–59, 62, 521
    Law Enforcement Executive Forum289
    Law Enforcement Statistics: The State of the Art (Ucihda et al.)436
    Lawlessness in Law Enforcement (National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement)56
    Leach, Edmund537
    Legitimacy and Criminal Justice (Tonry)249
    Levi-Strauss, Claude537
    Livingston, Debra140
    Local Enforcement Block Grant (LLEBG)62
    London Metropolitan Police
      community surveys, use of to study policing451–53
    London Olympics584
    Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD)296
    Los Angeles
      Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)60–61
    Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department291, 326
    Los Angeles Police Department317
      battering ram vehicle, use in drug houses42
      Board of Inquiry318
      militarization and86
      National Counter Terrorism Academy624
      Professional Movement593
    Los Angeles Rampart Scandal270
    Lowell, Massachusetts Police Department510
    Major Cities Chiefs417
    Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE)62
    Malinowski, Bronislaw537
    Management, community policing158
    Mandate, ethnographies of policing520–22
    Mao Zedong71
    Maribor, University of (Slovenia)617
    Marine spatial management600
    Martinson Report498
    Maryland, University of
      Institute of Clinical Justice and Criminology435
      Preventing Crime63
      Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)22
    Mass media, police race relations and344
    Mayhew, Henry522
    McKay, Henry537
    Mead, Margaret537
    Media, police race relations and356–57
    Memphis, Tennessee
      crisis intervention team (CIT)206
    Mental illness
      deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill128, 201
      history of people with mental illness in the community200–201
      military recruits, history200
      policing and199–203
        crisis intervention teams (CITs)206–7
        current models of police response205–7
        history of people with mental illness in the community200–201
        identification of mentally ill208–9
        multiple roles of mentally ill209
        police response, current models of205–7
        role of police, understanding201
        social disorganization theory and203–4
      role of police, understanding201
    Mercy bookings, mental illness201–3
    Metro-Dade Police-Citizen Violence Reduction Project477, 483
    Mexican Americans, "Zoot Suit" riot57–58
    Mexicans, illegal immigration and local policing411
    Miami-Dade Police Department316
    Miami River cops scandal270
    Micro-social focus, systematic social observation of the police486
    MIDCARS (Minnesota Interaction Data Coding and Reduction System)474
    Militarization85–87
      "environmental jolts86
      Occupy movement and87
    Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Officials (MCLEO)91, 18
    Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT)225
    Military recruits, mental illness, history200
    Mimetic isomorphism72
    Minneapolis Hot Spots Experiment497, 512
    Minnesota Domestic Violence Experiments251
    Minnesota Interaction Data Coding and Reduction System (MIDCARS)474
    Minorities
      procedural justice and21
    "Minority threat," conflict theory and348–49
    Miranda v. Arizona59, 321
    "Mixed-status" households, illegal immigration and423
    Model Penal Code264
    Mode of incorporation thesis, police race relations340–42
    Monell v. Department of Social Services323
    Money, community policing and152
    Monroe v. Pape323
    Morton, John423
    Muslim Arabs, Israel340
    Napoleonic police structure608
    National Academy of Science (NAS)433, 440
      Committee to Review Research on Policy Policy and Practices114
    National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders58, 190
    National Association of Medical Examiners287
    National Center for Problem-Oriented Policing (CPOP)129
    National Chief's Union55
    National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement56
    National Counter Terrorism Academy624
    National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)440, 458
    National Institute of Justice (NIJ)521
      community policing and148
      ethnographies of policing and521
      experimental designs and501
      police administrative records437
      police coercion and265
    National Opinion Research Center436
    National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE)288
    National Police Research Platform (Rosenbaum)437, 445
    National Prohibition Act of 1918178
    National Reassurance Policing Programme (NRPP)12
    National Research Council
      community surveys453
      ethnographies of policing531
      experimental designs and501, 507
      police misconduct and307
      social observation of police491, 11
    National Sheriff's Association (NSA)288, 437
    Negative rights, police authority and219–20
    Neighborhood disorder and crime problems, community surveys450, 459–61
    Neighborhood racial and class composition, police race relations and345–47
    Neustadt University of Applied Sciences in Vienna617
    Newark, community surveys457
    Newark Foot Patrol Experiment500, 512
    New Haven Connecticut Police Department137
    New Jersey Office of Attorney General292
    New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina aftermath91, 19
    New Orleans Police Department530
    Newton, Isaac189
    New York Asian Women's Center61
    New York City Transit Police128
    New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault61
    "Noble-cause corruption306
    Normative isomorphism72
    Normative principle, problem-oriented policing117
    North Carolina State Highway Patrol (NCSHP)391
    Northern Ireland, police ombudsman model18–19
    NYPD Blue (tv show)270
    Oakland (California) Police Department291–92
    Occupational differentiation, structure of police organizations81
    Occupational ethnographic studies524–32
    Occupy movement87
    Occupy Oakland87
    Ocean zoning600
    Office of Law Enforcement Assistance (OLEA)58, 521
    Office of National Drug Control Policy34
    Officially recorded data (ORD)520
    Oklahoma City Bombings (1995)628
    Oldenberg, Fred128
    Olmstead, Frederick Law137
    Operation Ceasefire, Boston Police Department112–14
    Operation Weed and Seed62
    Organizational dimension of community policing157–59
    Organizational ethnographic studies524–32
    Organizational field, defined89, 3
    Organizational patterns
      Central and Eastern Europe, policing in611–12
    Organizational theories of police misconduct
    "Outcome test," searches and seizures396
    "Padlock laws138
    Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville127
    Paramilitarization of the police, War on Terror632–34
    Paris, Arabs341
    Parkhurst, Reverend Charles54
    Particularization of knowledge, policing vulnerable populations203
    Partnerships, community policing157
    Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST)288
    Pearce, Russell425, 3
    Performance, police legitimacy and245
    Personal characteristics of innovator290–91
    Personal service, community policing155
    Petersilia, Joan510
    Pew Research Center23
    Philadelphia
      foot patrol experiment501
      politics and police55
    Philadelphia Police Department317, 323
    Philip-Sörensen, Sven581
    Phoenix Police Department (Arizona)291
    Place-based tactics173
    Plural authority, police discretion and22, 226–28
    Plural policing, Central and Eastern Europe612–13
    Police Administration (Vollmer)58
    Police administrative records as social science data433
      force, police use of442–45
        FIGURE 19.1 Reported rates of physical force in 36 studies443
      scope, determining437–40
        Table 19.1 Police Department SEA Indicators439
      unsystematic data collection, police use of force442–45
        FIGURE 19.1 Reported rates of physical force in 36 studies443
    Police agencies, responses to political pressure52–53
    Police brutality58
    Police chief/administration
    Police-community relations150
    Police corruption305–9
      code of ethics and306
      force as mechanism of270
      functional theories of307
      individualistic theories of307
      motivation for305
      "noble-cause corruption306
      occupational theories of307
      sociological theories of308
      surveys, assessment309
      "traditional corruption306
    Police demeanor, community surveys452
    Police Executive Research Forum (PERF)13, 103, 288
      Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing111
      Survey of Police Operational and Administrative Practices435
    Police ombudsman model, Northern Ireland18–19
    Police organizational development, community policing and151–52
    Police-Public Contact Survey (PPCS)267, 314
    Police reform, community policing and152
    Police research, community policing and150
    Police responsiveness, systematic social observation of the police482
    Police support, systematic social observation of the police482
    "Police surge" demonstrations, New York City233, 18
    Policing contexts
      recent history of the police3–33
    Policing in Cincinnati Project472, 476
    Policing into the future
      Central and Eastern Europe, policing in606
      local police and the "war" on terrorism623
      police legitimacy, theory and policy551–70
      private policing in public spaces571–88
    Policing urban drug markets34–48
      drug crime, structural shifts and opportunity structures36
      gang drug-dealing organizations38
      opportunity structures36
      segregation and39
      structural shifts36
    Policing vulnerable populations
      chronic health conditions, persons with199
      culpability, relevance of203
      definition of vulnerable populations198–99
      homeless population199
      mental illness199–203
        crisis intervention teams (CITs)206–7
        current models of police response205–7
        history of people with mental illness in the community200–201
        identification of mentally ill208–9
        multiple roles of mentally ill209
        police response, current models of205–7
        role of police, understanding201
        social disorganization theory and203–4
      particularization of knowledge203
      police response, current models of205–7
        crisis intervention teams (CITs)206–7
      procedural justice, emphasis on208
      social disorganization, role of203–5
    Policy implications, police legitimacy562–65
    "Political," defined49
    Popular culture, zero tolerance and policing180
    Positive interaction, community policing156–57
    Positive rights, police authority and221–22
    Posse Comitatus Act (PCA)86
    Potentially violent situations (PVs)477
    Prerogative power222
    Presidential Crime Commission449
    President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice4, 58, 288, 309
    Preventing Crime (University of Maryland)63
    Prevention, community policing156
    Preventive detention60
    Preventive patrolling, experimental design499–500
    Privatization
      Central and Eastern Europe, policing in612–13
      private policing in public spaces578–79
    "Problem of order238
    Problem-Oriented Policing (Goldstein)132
    Problem-Solving Partnerships Program13
    Procedural injustice555
    Professionalization, private policing in public spaces582–83
    Professional Movement593
    Progressive Era593
    Progressive policing model366
    Project Griffin584
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Weber)70
    Public housing, zero tolerance and policing179
    Quality of life policing186
    Race relations, community policing and150
    Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred537
    Radelet, Louis148
    Random digit dialing (RDD) telephone survey463–64
    Randomization, experimental designs509, 511
    Ratcliffe, Jerry501
    Rational choice perspective, problem-oriented policing110
    Rationality, police organizations70–76
    Rational/legal model, police legitimacy366
    Reactivity
      systematic social observation of the police484–85
    Reagan, Ronald W.225
    Reforms
      community policing and152
    Regional Community Placement Institutes9
    Regional Police Training Initiative, Southeastern Europe614
    Re-oriented operations, community policing155
    Restorative justice21
    Richmond, systematic social observation of the police478
    Rogers, Everett3
    Routine activity approach, problem-oriented policing110–11
    Ruhr University Bochum617
    Sacramento Police Department, racial profiling390
    Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies (SSLEA)436
    San Antonio
      Hispanics, police race relations352
    San Bernardino County, S.M.A.S.H. unit370
    San Diego experiment, experimental designs502
    San Diego Police Department, problem-oriented policing112
    San Francisco
      Chinese Americans, police race relations353
    San Francisco Police Department292
    San Jose Police Department326
      racial profiling, traffic and pedestrian stops390
    Savannah, systematic social observation of the police478
    Scanning, problem-oriented policing104–5
    Scheider, Matthew C.623
    Schengen Agreement613
    Schmitt, Carl220
    Schools, zero tolerance and policing179–80
    Scientific principle, problem-oriented policing117
    Scott, Michael S.280
    Searches and seizures, racial profiling
      "outcome test396
    Seattle
      banishment, practices of597
      police coercion444
      policing teams75
      urban drug markets41
    Secret Service63
    Segregation
      drug markets and39
      police race relations and349
    Self-interest, hedonistic psychology of130
    Sexual violence, police misconduct305
    Shared space, disorder as unfair use of132–35
    Shared values, police legitimacy and243–45
    Shaw, Clifford537
    Sipowicz, Andy270
    Situational approach, theories of police misconduct312
    Situational influences on police behavior482–84
    Size of police organizations76–79
      growth, evidence of77
    Slave laws, zero tolerance and policing and177
    Slippery slope problem, local police and War on Terror632–34
    S.M.A.S.H. unit, San Bernardino County370
    Social context of police legitimacy557–61
      empirical legitimacy, implications for560–61
    Social contract560
    "Social disorder," measurements of143, 8
    Social disorganization theory
      police race relations346
      policing vulnerable populations and203–5
    Social interactionism, police race relations343
    Social learning theory, police race relations343–44
    Social media, police race relations and356–57
    Social-psychological models, police race relations342–43
    Social tolerance, zero tolerance and policing174–75
    Societal culture
      environmental characteristics, restraint and292
    Socioeconomic characteristics of innovator290–91
    Sociological theories of police misconduct
      excessive force, use of313
      police corruption308
    Solidarnosc Trade Union610
    South Africa, Indians340
    Spano, Richard485
    Spatial differentiation, structure of police organizations81
    Special Constabulary Act of 1831 (England and Wales)576
    Spousal Assault Replication experiments512
    Staatssicherheit609
    Stability Pact, Southeastern Europe614
    Standard model of policing5–6
    Statistical discrimination, racial profiling387
    Status
      policing urban drug markets, community race and status39–42
    St. Louis, order maintenance policing127
    St. Petersburg, systematic social observation of the police481
    Strategy, ethnographies of policing520–22
    Street musicians, order maintenance policing and143, 7
    Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community (Anderson)362–63
    Structure of police organizations79–82
      community policing movement, during80–82
      formalization81
      occupational differentiation81
      spatial differentiation81
    Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)22
    Supervisors, police misconduct and317–18
    Sutherland, Edwin240
    Symbolic resources, police legitimacy and244
    Tactics, ethnographies of policing520–22
    Tammany Hall54
    TASER International295
    Taste discrimination, racial profiling387
    Technologization, private policing in public spaces579
    Temporal dynamics, systematic social observation of the police488
    Tennessee v. Garner61, 311
    Tenth Amendment627
    Territorialization, private policing in public spaces581–82
    Thatcher, Margaret225
    Theme, ethnographies of policing520–22
    "Thick" security, police legitimacy557–58
    Third Law of Motion189
    Thomas, William I.537
    Thrasher, Frederick537
    Tiedeman, Christopher125
    Toch, Hans3
    Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle (Cover)283
    Traditional authority71
    Turnstyle jumpers188
    Twain, Mark10
      "Criminological Theories: The Truth as Told by Mark Twain" (Gottfredson)261
    Underreporting of crime458
    United Kingdom
      police legitimacy, policy564
      private policing in public spaces574
    United States v. Leon60
    United States v. Salerno60
    Universal Hiring Program62
    U.S. Commission on Civil Rights17
    U.S. Government Accountability Office415
    U.S. Postal Service's Delivery Sequence File464
    U.S. Supreme Court
      excessive force and310
      police misconduct and303
      politics and policing51, 59
      space, policing of595
    Varieties of police research
      community surveys, use of to study policing449–70
      experimental designs, use of to study police interventions497–517
      police administrative records as social science data431
      systematic social observation of the police471–96
    Victimization
      Central and Eastern Europe, policing in615–16
      community surveys, use of to study policing450, 458–59
    Violence and the Police539
    Violent crime
      assaults, community surveys and459
      potentially violent situations (PVs)477
    Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act8–9, 17, 62, 324
    Volkspolizei609
    Volpe, Justin302
    Volstead Act178
    Wakeman, Stillman S.54
    Waldron, Jeremy135
    Walker, Samuel18
    Washington, D.C.
      Metropolitan Police Department631
      police race relations356
      September 11, 2001631
      systematic social observation of the police473
    Washington State University
      Division of Governmental Studies and Services (DGSS)435
    Weber, Max
      police authority and219
      The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism70
    Weimar Republic607
    West Germany, policing in609
    Why People Obey the Law249
    Wickersham Commission56
    Wickersham, George W.56
    Wickersham report519
    Wilson, O. W.58
    Wilson, Woodrow178
    Women officers59
    Wrong, Dennis238
    Youth Firearms Violence Initiative62
    Znaniecki, Florian537
    Zoning-based regulations600
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