In recent years the costs of school vandalism and the incidence of vandalism in the public schools have been rising. The study concerns itself with the application of production functions, Monte Carlo techniques, and Shannon's model of information theory to determine the most efficient use of preventive vandalism techniques in a large school…

This paper is a report of a training session conducted for a Special Weapons and Tactics Squad (SWAT Squad). SWAT Squad is a unit of police officers who are specially trained to handle situations involving armed and barricaded suspects. The goal was to better prepare the officers to talk with the suspects. The SWAT commander argued that ninety…

In this paper the Transition, Inc. program of the city of Miami is examined. This program's main concern is to help ex-offenders in their re-socialization process by offering them moral as well as financial support. It is evidenced from the goal and objectives of the Transition, Inc. program, its rehabilitative results and related literature that…

This document discusses the need for cooperation and assistance from the psychological professions in law enforcement agencies. The author relates his personal experiences as a consultant to a police department, and outlines several steps to promote and maintain effectiveness within the agency. Mutual respect and a willingness to become a good…

This report presents complaints and supporting legal memoranda from recent student rights cases. The complaints cover recurrent constitutional arguments that are advanced in most cases. The supporting documents offer a complete compendium of applicable current decisions. The conception of student rights reflected herein is traditional,…

This is a curriculum guide for junior high school students and police trainees. It is designed to improve police-juvenile relations through juvenile attitude change and police understanding. Units have been developed for social studies teachers pertaining to the law and law enforcement and for police trainees dealing with the nature of the early…

The course guide has been prepared to aid in planning and conducting a training program in emergency medical care for first responders to traffic accidents (expected to be patrolling law enforcement officers). This document contains a detailed description of the training program; suggestions for course planning including class size, scheduling…

The purpose of this study was to develop a manual on the Texas laws of arrest for use by state and local law enforcement officers. It is not intended to be a legal treatise, although pertinent statutes and court decisions are reviewed and suggestions made for legislative change. A brief history of the laws of arrest is presented, together with a…

This study represents an effort to develop an observational instrument to assess a correctional officer's behavior, and to evaluate officer training programs. A list of 73 inmate behaviors to which the officer might respond was assembled. The most relevant, significant, and most often occurring inmate behaviors were selected. Six judges with…

Four programed instruction courses were developed in the form of printed texts. They covered the California Penal Code, the laws of arrest, search and seizure, evidence, and dangerous weapons control laws. The programed courses were used as self-study instructional material for recruit training and for in-service training for policemen. The…

A project was devised to develop study materials for a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) course in police training, to develop computerized case problems, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the learning materials as compared with conventional classroom instruction in the same subject areas. Both an experimental group (police cadets at Golden…

The purpose of this study was to develop a manual on the Texas laws of arrest for use by state and local law enforcement officers. It is not intended to be a legal treatise, although pertinent statutes and court decisions are reviewed and suggestions made for legislative change. A brief history of the laws of arrest is presented, together with a…

Schools must devise the means of preventing school violence and crime and of immediately dealing with incidents when they do occur. The school public relations director should check the accuracy of reported violence and should maintain good relations with the police and the news media. (DS)

A questionnaire is designed to allow assessment of a simple additive value function for testing respondent preferences for different types of information used in evaluating police services. Responses are analyzed to determine what types of information different stakeholder groups consider useful. (Author/LMO)

An Arizona high school's security program includes using teachers as security personnel for campus events, cooperating with juvenile probation officers, and assigning local police to daily patrol and night events. (MJL)