In the United States, trust in law enforcement is plummeting alongside increased crime rates and police-involved killings, primarily of unarmed black men, making this social issue of imminent importance. Moreover, globally, security actor reform and relationship-building between communities and security forces is essential to post-conflict…

The Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) program is a gang- and delinquency-prevention program delivered by law enforcement officers within a school setting. Originally designed in 1991 by Phoenix-area law enforcement agencies to address local needs, the program quickly spread across the United States. In this article, we describe…

How effective are policy interventions to fight crime and how valid is the policy theory that underlies them? This is the twofold research question addressed in this article, which presents an evidence-based evaluation of Dutch social safety policy. By bridging the gap between actual effects and assumed effects, this study seeks to make fuller use…

Poisson and negative binomial regression methods are used to analyze the monthly time series data to determine the effects of introducing an integrated security management system including closed-circuit television (CCTV), door alarm monitoring, proximity card access, and emergency call boxes to a large privately-owned complex of apartment…

Seminars conducted for 90 officers were evaluated by personal observation of the seminars in progress and by a comparison of seminar participants and nonparticipants. The evaluation revealed that the initial strong impact of the seminars tended to dissipate rather quickly over time. Other major findings were that seminar participants tended to…

The Junior High Police School Liaison Program is a three-year pilot project conducted by the Edmonton Police Department, and the Edmonton Public and Catholic School Systems. The objectives of the program include: (1) developing a preventive approach to crime; (2) reducing the local crime level; (3) improving relations among police officers,…

Issued by the Exemplary Projects Program, this document systematically identifies 19 outstanding criminal justice programs throughout the country and verifies their achievements, with the goal of encouraging widespread use of advanced criminal justice practices. Details on the operating methods, budget, staffing, training requirements, potential…

Juvenile programs presented at five Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) State and Local Programs Working Meetings serve as the focus for this report. The following topics were covered at the meetings: (1) Rural Issues and Programs; (2) Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Education; (3) Understanding and Combating Violence; (4) Preventing Drug Abuse and…

This fourth annual report of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice summarizes its programs and funding for research, evaluation, and research utilization for fiscal year 1977. Chapter 1 describes research agreements with various organizations to study the subjects of the habitual offender, white-collar crime, the economics…

The report discusses many ways for police managers to improve the success of their departments' criminal investigation efforts. Management issues addressed include budgeting and allocating resources; improving relationships with the prosecutor; interacting with the public, especially victims and witnesses; improving relationships between…

This report presents results from the Florida State Board of Community Colleges' review of Criminal Justice programs. A preface indicates that concerns related to crime in the state provided the impetus for the review and that it focused on issues related to curricula, funding and costs, labor demand and employment requirements, and labor supply.…