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- Title
- Community-oriented policing: Testing the actual faithfulness of implementation by the police and their perceptions of its reduction in social disorganization.
- Creator
- Collins, William D., Florida Atlantic University, Arneklev, Bruce J.
- Abstract/Description
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Police department attitudes and behaviors associated with faithfully implementing community policing may determine its success for combating social disorganization. The literature review presents a background for understanding community policing and its link to the theory of social disorganization. It is hypothesized that supportive attitudes toward community policing will produce behaviors consistent with its application that may help in combating the disadvantages of social disorganization....
Show morePolice department attitudes and behaviors associated with faithfully implementing community policing may determine its success for combating social disorganization. The literature review presents a background for understanding community policing and its link to the theory of social disorganization. It is hypothesized that supportive attitudes toward community policing will produce behaviors consistent with its application that may help in combating the disadvantages of social disorganization. Secondhand public data of a two-part community policing survey is used to test each hypothesis. Analysis procedures used for this test consist of reliability comparisons, bivariate correlation and finally OLS regression. The results of this thesis indicate a promising causal relationship between supportive attitudes playing a role in shaping behaviors consistent with the performance of community policing techniques. The results also reveal that police agencies that have supportive attitudes toward community oriented policing also perceive that it can have a positive impact in combating social disorganization.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2001
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12869
- Subject Headings
- Community policing, Police--Attitudes, Police administration, Police-community relations
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Comparing regulatory and distributive police programs for crime reduction: An evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency.
- Creator
- Carroll, John J., Florida Atlantic University, Ben-Zadok, Efraim
- Abstract/Description
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Lowi's "arenas of power" theory, one of the most basic policy typologies, was the theoretical foundation for this study. Most public policies can be classified as either regulatory or distributive. Regulatory policy addresses the enforcement power of government. Distributive policy is about providing benefits to selected members of society, financed as a public good. The intention of this study is to comparatively analyze two different police programs. The study stepped back from criminal...
Show moreLowi's "arenas of power" theory, one of the most basic policy typologies, was the theoretical foundation for this study. Most public policies can be classified as either regulatory or distributive. Regulatory policy addresses the enforcement power of government. Distributive policy is about providing benefits to selected members of society, financed as a public good. The intention of this study is to comparatively analyze two different police programs. The study stepped back from criminal justice literature to public policy theory, to consider other ways to assess police strategies to reduce crime. Theory was linked to the practice of policing by examining regulatory policy in relation to crime control and distributive policy to crime prevention. The Truancy Reduction Program was selected as an example of regulatory policy/crime control, and the School Resource Officer Program as distributive policy/crime prevention. This is an exploratory analysis, using a quantitative case study methodology. The Broward Sheriff's Office (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) was selected as the case study. The data were drawn from six consecutive school years (1995--2001) of actual documents. The intent was to explore, not establish a causal relationship between the programs and crime reduction, because other major external factors existed beyond the scope of this analysis. The "universal" concepts of effectiveness and efficiency were adapted to create a multi-criteria evaluation of the program outcomes. The central research question essentially asked if one program (and therefore, policy) was more effective and/or efficient than the other. In this study, effectiveness refers to the relationship between program goals and outcomes, while efficiency refers to the relationship between costs and outcomes. To examine effectiveness, the fixed effects pooled time series technique for panel data was employed. To examine efficiency, an efficiency ratio was created to compare program costs against the costs of crime. A relationship was established between each program, crime reduction, and effectiveness and efficiency. The final phase was comparative, employing a multivariate analysis of variance, to determine if one policy was more effective and efficient. The results were inconclusive. The study makes recommendations for future research, discusses implications of the analyses for public administration, and concluding comments.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2003
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT12025
- Subject Headings
- Crime prevention, Criminal justice, Administration of, Distributive justice, Community policing
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Integration disconnect in police agencies: the effects of agency factors on the production andconsumption of crime analysis.
- Creator
- Seigel, Jamie L., Santos, Rachel, Florida Atlantic University, College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Abstract/Description
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Poorly integrated crime analysis may be a detriment to crime reduction efforts and financial resources. The purpose of this research is to identify deficiencies and successes in crime analysis integration and to understand which agency factors are related. Using the Stratified Model of Problem Solving, Analysis, and Accountability and data from a national PERF survey of police agencies, this study quantifies the levels of production and consumption-based integration disconnect as well as...
Show morePoorly integrated crime analysis may be a detriment to crime reduction efforts and financial resources. The purpose of this research is to identify deficiencies and successes in crime analysis integration and to understand which agency factors are related. Using the Stratified Model of Problem Solving, Analysis, and Accountability and data from a national PERF survey of police agencies, this study quantifies the levels of production and consumption-based integration disconnect as well as other important agency factors. To determine which agency factors contribute most to integration disconnect, bivariate correlation and multiple regression analyses are used to examine the relationships, while controlling for agency type, centralization, officers per analyst, crimes per officer, and agency size. Findings indicate that production- and consumption-based disconnect are positively related to one another and that passive patrol-analyst interactions, an agency’s analysis integration disconnect.
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- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004329, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004329
- Subject Headings
- Crime analysis, Crime forecasting, Criminal justice, Administration of, Criminal statistics -- Mathematical models, Organizational effectiveness, Police administration
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Policing Palm Beach: A history of the department's early years.
- Creator
- Murray, Debra A., Florida Atlantic University, Curl, Donald W.
- Abstract/Description
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Several unusual circumstances combined to influence the development of the Palm Beach Police Department. Seasonal activity in the Town of Palm Beach created a unique environment for the men who worked as police officers. Even though the town incorporated in 1911, year-round law enforcement consisted of one man, Joseph Borman, for the first ten years. Borman's interaction with the town's founding fathers, before and after incorporation, played a significant role in how council members dealt...
Show moreSeveral unusual circumstances combined to influence the development of the Palm Beach Police Department. Seasonal activity in the Town of Palm Beach created a unique environment for the men who worked as police officers. Even though the town incorporated in 1911, year-round law enforcement consisted of one man, Joseph Borman, for the first ten years. Borman's interaction with the town's founding fathers, before and after incorporation, played a significant role in how council members dealt with law enforcement on the island. Despite the pressures of policing an area many of the world's wealthiest people called home at least part of the year, Chief Borman insisted on courteous professionalism from his officers. This helped the Palm Beach Police Department overcome the death of two police officers, terrible hurricanes, Prohibition, and the inevitable growing pains experienced adjusting to new technologies and social pressures. The department continues to exemplify Borman's high standards.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2001
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12852
- Subject Headings
- Police chiefs--Florida--Palm Beach--History., Palm Beach (Fla).--Police Dept., Borman, Joseph., Police administration--Florida--Palm Beach--History.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Gendered images of expertise, leadership and virture: applying Stivers' theoretical framework to police practices as represented in publications from 1979 to 2009.
- Creator
- Larson, Robin Lynn., College of Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
- Abstract/Description
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In this dissertation, a theoretical framework is developed from Camilla Stivers' (2002) argument that images of expertise, leadership and virtue are used to defend public administration's legitimacy in the face of criticisms about the inefficiencies of government and the power wielded by bureaucrats. Stivers argues that these legitimizing and traditional images have historical and cultural roots in ideas associated with masculinity, and that this harms women in the public sector. The realm of...
Show moreIn this dissertation, a theoretical framework is developed from Camilla Stivers' (2002) argument that images of expertise, leadership and virtue are used to defend public administration's legitimacy in the face of criticisms about the inefficiencies of government and the power wielded by bureaucrats. Stivers argues that these legitimizing and traditional images have historical and cultural roots in ideas associated with masculinity, and that this harms women in the public sector. The realm of policing faced similar criticisms and defended its legitimacy by altering practices, the day-to-day actions of police practitioners. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the possibility that police practitioners have defended their legitimacy on the same basis as public administrators have done by offering images of expertise, leadership and virtue, which Stivers (2002) claims are deeply gendered. Using Ethnographic Content Analysis (ECA), imagery is qualitatively examined using using Stivers' (2002) descriptions of characteristics, qualitiers, values and actions that she associates with images of expertise, leadership and virtue... Masculine images of virtue portray the police as dedicated and committed professionals who protect the citizenry through laudable programs and initiatives. Masculine images of leadership are less prevalent, but consistently portray the police as controlling and direction-setting visionaries. Alternative imagery patterns include leadership images more aligned with femininity, such as collaboration and cooperation. Throughout the thirty-one years, these patterns of images are observed, despite differences in practices associated with the three paradigms of policing.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355628
- Subject Headings
- Leadership, Municipal government, Public administration, Progressivism (United States politics), Police administration, Criminal justice, Administration of
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Relationships among crime analysis, accountability, and innovative policing strategies: results from a national survey.
- Creator
- Smith, Justin James, Santos, Rachel, Florida Atlantic University, College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Abstract/Description
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Over the years, innovations such as community-oriented policing, problem-oriented policing, and hot spots policing have enabled the police to make substantial crime control and reduction gains. However, empirical research has shown that police occasionally misuse these strategies in practice. One possible solution is the co-implementation of these strategies with crime analysis. Yet, little is known about this relationship in practice. Using national survey data collected by the Police...
Show moreOver the years, innovations such as community-oriented policing, problem-oriented policing, and hot spots policing have enabled the police to make substantial crime control and reduction gains. However, empirical research has shown that police occasionally misuse these strategies in practice. One possible solution is the co-implementation of these strategies with crime analysis. Yet, little is known about this relationship in practice. Using national survey data collected by the Police Executive Research Forum in 2008 from a sample of over 1,000 United States police agencies this thesis explores this relationship. Results of bivariate analysis between agency commitment to and integration of crime analysis within operations and the use of innovative strategies revealed positive relationships. Additionally, bivariate analysis between agency use of accountability mechanisms and innovative strategies revealed a strong positive relationship. Multivariate regression analysis revealed the use of accountability mechanisms and commitment to crime analysis as strong positive predictors of police agency innovation.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004332, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004332
- Subject Headings
- Crime analysis -- Data processing, Crime prevention, Criminal investigation -- Technological innovations, Criminal justice, Administration of, Law enforcement, Police -- Effect of technological innovations on, Police administration -- Technological innovations
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- IN QUEST OF A POLICE PROFESSION: A BIOGRAPHY OF ORLANDO W. WILSON.
- Creator
- BOPP, WILLIAM J., Florida Atlantic University, O'Sullivan, John
- Abstract/Description
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Orlando W. Wilson was the most influential figure in the history of American law enforcement. His career as a police chief, criminology professor, consultant and author began in 1921, and spanned forty-six years. His accomplishments during this period have not been surpassed: He is the Father of the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics; he began America's first police-college cadet program; he pioneered state sponsored training courses and minimum standards for police personnel; he initiated...
Show moreOrlando W. Wilson was the most influential figure in the history of American law enforcement. His career as a police chief, criminology professor, consultant and author began in 1921, and spanned forty-six years. His accomplishments during this period have not been surpassed: He is the Father of the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics; he began America's first police-college cadet program; he pioneered state sponsored training courses and minimum standards for police personnel; he initiated psychological testing for police officers; he founded the country's first professional school of criminology; and he authored the most widely circulated police administration textbook in history. In addition, Wilson's former students and subordinates formed the vanguard of the American police professionalization movement, and his management surveys of some forty major police departments furnished a model for reorganization which has become dogma in law enforcement. Wilson's police career began as a patrolman in Berkeley, California. He briefly served Fullerton, California as its chief of police, then in 1928 began an eleven year tenure as chief in Wichita, Kansas. During that term of service, Wilson's reputation grew, as Wichita gained fame as the "West Point of Law Enforcement." Forced out of Wichita by corrupt politicians, Wilson accepted a professorship at the University of California in 1939. With the exception of wartime service as Director of de-Nazification activities in Germany, he spent twenty-one years at the University, the last decade as Dean of the School of Criminology. In 1960, he received an urgent call from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, whose administration was in jeopardy because of a major police scandal. Wilson was appointed to chair a search committee empaneled to select a reform police commissioner. When the committee could not find a competent applicant, it turned to its chairman, and persuaded Wilson to take the job. During his seven years in office, he completely reorganized the police department, aggressively fought corruption, and inspired public confidence in his efforts. He retired in 1967. O.W. Wilson was scrupulously honest, and dedicated to creating an American police profession. His battles against corruption and his disdain for politicians are legendary . Throughout his career, he directed his considerable energy toward uplifting the status of law enforcement. He was a man of high principles, unswervingly committed to excellence. Nonetheless, he also had serious limitations. He applied disciplinary action ruthlessly , without regard to human considerations. His penchant for orderliness led him to adopt a rigid military method of organizing police departments, despite the negative effect it had on police-community relationships. Moreover, Wilson often became so preoccupied with structural reorganization that more substantive police reform was overlooked. Notwithstanding personal limitations, Orlando H. Wilson was the greatest police administrator American law enforcement has yet produced. His impact on the movement to professionalize the police is incalculable, and even his earliest contributions to the field have stood the test of time.
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- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11649
- Subject Headings
- Wilson, O W --(Orlando Winfield),--1900-1972
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- Document (PDF)
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- " Guilty" until proven innocent: interrogation and false confessions.
- Creator
- Wailes, Meridith, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
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In 1956 Darrel Parker was convicted of murdering his wife, with no evidence of his guilt except his own confession. Like Parker, some individuals confess to crimes which they did not commit. These confessions are generally made with a lawyer present when police us deception or coercion. While deception is constitutional, and a permitted police tactic, coercion is not. THis paper distinguished between the two and provides a philosophical framework for determining when deception becomes...
Show moreIn 1956 Darrel Parker was convicted of murdering his wife, with no evidence of his guilt except his own confession. Like Parker, some individuals confess to crimes which they did not commit. These confessions are generally made with a lawyer present when police us deception or coercion. While deception is constitutional, and a permitted police tactic, coercion is not. THis paper distinguished between the two and provides a philosophical framework for determining when deception becomes coercive. While non-coercive deception can lead to false confessions, I do not argue that deception should be banned, as it is a useful tool for police in catching criminals. Instead, I argue that police may deceive suspects, but prosecutors and judges should provide a check by using a three-pronged test to ensure that individuals are not convicted of crimes they did not commit.
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- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359324
- Subject Headings
- Confession (Law), Psychological aspects, Police questioning, Psychological aspects, Criminal justice, Administration of, Moral and ethical aspects, Interviewing in law enforcement, Criminal investigation, Psychological aspects
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- Document (PDF)
