Police Innovation and Control of the Police

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Raising Questions of Law and Order

      • David Weisburd, Craig Uchida, Lorraine Green

      Pages 3-9

3. The Development of Legal Control of the Police

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Justice Without Trial

      • Jerome H. Skolnick

      Pages 13-31

   3. Historical Roots of the Legal Control of Police Behavior

      • Samuel Walker

      Pages 32-55

4. Changing Trends in Police Innovation: Toward Community-Based Policies of Crime Control

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57

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   2. Alternative Futures for Policing

      • John E. Eck

      Pages 59-79

   3. Community Policing and the Rule of Law

      • Stephen D. Mastrofski, Jack R. Greene

      Pages 80-102

   4. The Challenge of Reinventing Police and Community

      • Michael E. Buerger

      Pages 103-124

5. Problems of Law, Order, and Community in Comparative Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. The Soviet Police and the Rule of Law

      • Louise Shelley

      Pages 127-144

   3. Law Enforcement Innovation and the Rule of Law: Comparative and Historical Perspectives

      • William F. McDonald

      Pages 145-168

6. Crime Control and Police Control: Future Trends and Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Why Crime Control is Not Reactionary

      • Lawrence W. Sherman

      Pages 171-189

   3. Justice Without Trial Revisited

      • Jerome H. Skolnick

      Pages 190-206

7. Back Matter

   Pages 207-223

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Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order and Community brings together an impressive array of scholars and analysts to examine the impact of the development of crime control strategies on problems of police corruption and abuse. The text provides an historical overview of the development of legal control of the police, and examines the challenges that recent innovations, such as community or problem oriented policing present to the traditional, historical mechanisms for maintaining control of the police. Additionally, a comparative perspective is featured that draws upon the experiences of the Gorbachev era in the Soviet Union as well as on the history of European law enforcement over the last century. This book is instrumental for encouraging discussion and debate of police innovation and its impact on the ability of society to control the police abuse. In light of the Los Angeles riots of the Spring of 1992, scholars, practitioners, and students of crime prevention studies, criminology, and psychology will find this volume timely, topical, and provocative.

• Crime Prevention
• Innovation
• Kriminalpsychologie
• Kriminologie
• Polizei
• law
• police
• psychology

• Center for Crime Prevention Studies, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

  David Weisburd

• Institute of Criminology, Hebrew University Law School, Jerusalem, Israel

  David Weisburd

• National Institute of Justice, USA

  Craig Uchida

Policies and ethics