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Meaningful and Effective Performance Evaluations in a Time of Community Policing [PDF]

, 2000
It is well recognized that the success of community-policing initiatives may be dependent on a variety of organizational changes, such as decentralization, increased officer autonomy and discretion, and permanent or stable geographic assignments. What is
Stroshine, Meghan S.
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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer, Lindsay Lanteri, Rebekah Levine Coley, Samantha Teixeira   +3 more
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The Role of Community Police in Crime Prevention and Control for the Effective Management

International Studies Journal, 2023
The study examined community policing and crime prevention in Nigeria with reference to Jenkwe Development Area. The study further sought to achieve other objectives which include to identify community policing and crime prevention; to examine the ...
Rachel Nimma Ndakotsu
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Better Policing for the City of Buffalo: Toward Community, Transparency, and Justice [PDF]

, 2017
This policy brief was drafted by Andrea Ó Súilleabháin, Deputy Director at Partnership for the Public Good. It recommends that the Buffalo Police Department expand its community policing efforts through culture change and incentives, a diversified police
Ó Súilleabháin, Andrea
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell, Rachael Goodman‐Williams, Katie Gregory, McKenzie Javorka, Jasmine Engleton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public confidence in policing: a neo-Durkheimian perspective [PDF]

, 2007
Public confidence in policing has received much attention in recent years, but few studies outside of the United States have examined the sociological and social–psychological processes that underpin trust and support.
Jackson, Jonathan, Sunshine, Jason
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Trauma‐Informed Practice in Welfare‐to‐Work and Employment Services: A Scoping Review

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition within welfare services, including employment services, that many participants may have histories of trauma. Research suggests that experiences of trauma not only impact individuals' psychosocial health but also vocational elements such as job performance, employability, career progression, and financial ...
Emily Corbett, Michael McGann, Mark Considine, René Rejón   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMMUNITY POLICING AND REPRESENTATION WITHIN POLICING IN CANADA

The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare
On November 14, 2023, Jacqueline Edwards presented Community Policing and Representation within Policing in Canada for this year’s West Coast Security Conference.
Jacqueline Edwards
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Don't Worry About Her; Intersectionality, and the Role of Systems and Structures in the Embodied Experiences of Young Women's Use of Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak, Tamara Blakemore, Elsie Randall, Meaghan Katrak Harris   +3 more
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The evolution of competition and policing: opposing selection within and among groups

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007
Background Although selection favors exploitative competition within groups, a group of hypercompetitive individuals may be less productive than a cooperative group.
Wade Michael J, Brandvain Yaniv
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