This text focuses on police involvement and interaction with the communities they serve. The practical strategies of community policing as well as the philosophy behind the community policing movement are presented. Community policing is the current theory and practice replacing community relations.

Community Policing: Theory and Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Miller, Linda S.

Hess, Kären M.

Social Sciences

Wadsworth Publishing

Applied and approachable! With Miller and Hess's community policing text, you'll learn the basics of today's policing environment, while focusing on the essential elements of success: problem solving, community/police collaboration, and partnerships. The exciting "Ideas in Practice" feature, which spotlights innovative community policing initiatives from around the country, shows you where peoples' hope and determination have created a path toward a better life-and might even prompt you to think of new things you can do to serve your community and make a difference.

Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

By focusing on the dual themes of community/police collaboration and problem-oriented policing, this text focuses on police involvement and interaction with the communities they serve. It explores the practical strategies of community policing as well as the philosophy behind the community policing movement. The text gives a historical perspective to community policing, examines it as a philosophy, and introduces the skills criminal justice professionals need to implement an effective community policing program. Chapter One discusses the three strategic areas of policing. Chapters Two and Three examine the role of the community and the role of the police respectively in developing a partnership to enhance community safety. Chapter Four discusses the basic interpersonal skills needed to build effective relationships, including the communication process, barriers to effective communication, lessons learned from business, and human relations guidelines.

Police in the Community: Strategies for the 21st Century

By focusing on the dual themes of community/police collaboration and problem-oriented policing, this text focuses on police involvement and interaction with the communities they serve. It explores the practical strategies of community policing as well as the philosophy behind the community policing movement. The text gives a historical perspective to community policing, examines it as a philosophy, and introduces the skills criminal justice professionals need to implement an effective community policing program.

The Police in the Community: Strategies for the 21st Century

Updated line-by-line and focusing throughout on the dual themes of problem solving and community/police collaboration and partnerships, this comprehensive text provides law enforcement students and police professionals with a career-focused up-to-the minute look at effective community policing. After presenting an historical perspective and the philosophy behind the movement, police veteran Linda S. Miller and renowned criminal justice educator Kären M. Hess turn to the practical strategies and essential skills needed to implement realistic, workable problem solving within communities today. And, because changes in technology and society continually present new challenges to police officers, COMMUNITY POLICING: PARTNERSHIPS FOR PROBLEM SOLVING (formerly titled THE POLICE IN THE COMMUNITY: STRATEGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY) illustrates the application of procedures to the latest issues, preparing students and professionals to understand the opportunities and responsibilities now faced by the police and the community they serve.

Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving (with InfoTrac)

Myleigh's Magical Curls

Children's Books

Linda S. Miller

With a strong focus on problem solving and community-police partnerships, this comprehensive book provides a practical, up-to-date guide to effective community policing. After a thorough introduction to the history and philosophy of the movement that has profoundly shaped modern police operations, the authors strongly emphasize practical strategies and essential skills to help you apply effective, real-world problem solving within your community. The seventh edition maintains this trusted book's proven strengths while introducing valuable updates and innovations, including new material on key trends and practices such as community and officer diversity, ethics and corruption, CompStat and hot-spot policing, and citizen oversight of police, as well as new features exploring the impact and importance of technology. Practical, engaging, and current, this one-of-a-kind text is also supported by a full range of supplemental learning tools, making it an indispensible resource aspiring and active law enforcement professionals alike.

Orthmann, Christine M.H.

Cengage Learning'

Designed to complement the book, WebTUTOR™ Advantage Plus is a content-rich, web-based teaching and learning aid that reinforces and clarifies complex concepts. Online quizzes offer automatic grading and electronic tracking for instructors, and feedback for students to reinforce learning."

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Delmar/Cengage Learning

About the Author 
Linda S. Miller is the former executive director of the Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute (UMCPI), as well as a former sergeant in the Bloomington, Minnesota, Police Department. She was with the department 22 years, serving as a patrol supervisor, crime prevention officer, patrol officer, and police dispatcher. Sergeant Miller has been a member of the Minnesota Peace and Police Officers Association, the International Police Association, the Midwest Gang Investigator's Association, the International Association of Women Police, and the Minnesota Association of Women Police, and she was a member of the People-to-People's Women in Law Enforcement Delegation to the Soviet Union in 1990. She is also a frequent presenter to community groups and an experienced instructor.

Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving, Loose-Leaf Version

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Orthmann, Christine H.

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Community Policing: Theory and Practice

Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving

Police in the Community: Strategies for the 21st Century

The Police in the Community: Strategies for the 21st Century

Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving (with InfoTrac)

Myleigh's Magical Curls

Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving

WebTutor™ Advantage Plus on Blackboard Intant Access Code for Miller/Hess/Orthmann's Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving

Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving, Loose-Leaf Version

Bundle: Community Policing: Partnerships for Problem Solving, Loose-Leaf Version, 8th + LMS Integrated MindTap Criminal Justice, 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card