Community Policing A Contemporary Perspective 6th Edition Victor E Kappeler, Larry K Gaines - Solutions

Explain the differences between dangerous places and crime hot spots and how crime analysis can determine these differences.
Give the reason why police need to be involved in problem solving.
Describe the concept of problem solving and how it differs from traditional policing.
Discuss some of the social conditions that give rise to crime and how these conditions give rise to problem places.
Explain the differences between incidents of crime and seeing crime as a larger social problem.
Discuss the four models of fear of crime.
Describe efforts taken by the Houston Police Department to reduce fear of crime. What parts of the program were unsuccessful? Which components were successful?
In accordance with the philosophy of community policing, identify and discuss five steps police can take to minimize people's fear of crime.
Discuss the ways in which print and television media impact citizen fear of crime. Include a description of the relevant research discussed in the text.
Much research indicates that females are more fearful of being victimized than males. Discuss the explanation for that fear.
Discuss who is most fearful of crime in terms of gender, race, social class, education, and age.
What does the research suggest about the issue of whether victims of crime are more fearful of crime than nonvictims?
Describe and discuss the areas of indirect costs to society because of fear of crime.
Discuss Garofalo's definition of “fear of crime” and the implications of that definition.
The research discussed in the text regarding fear of crime indicates some degree of irrationality. Discuss the discrepancies between the results of these studies, including the demographic descriptors of those most fearful and those least victimized by crime.
Describe the significance of the Flint Foot Patrol program. Include the factors that led to its implementation, the strategies and objectives of the program, and the results.
Discuss the victims’ movement and the factors that precipitated the movement.
Describe the theoretical models of fear of crime.
Cite the types of crimes citizens are most fearful of.
Discuss the relationship between socioeconomic status and fear of crime.
Describe the response of community policing to fear of crime.
Understand the roles of the media and law enforcement in the public's heightened fear of crime.
Discuss the relationship between victimization and fear of crime.
Describe the demographics of those most fearful and their actual rates of victimization.
Understand the roles of indirect victimization, community concern, and incivilities in citizens’fear of crime.
Discuss the relevance of the Flint Foot Patrol Experiment.
Understand the economic and social damage done to society as a result of fear of crime.
Discuss whether or not community policing can be an effective tool in fighting crime. What is the role of the CPO in these efforts?
Describe six of the twelve major findings of the RAND study of the criminal investigation process.
Discuss the reasons for citizen delays when calling the police. Does this have any impact on the police's ability to solve the crime? Why or why not?
Discuss the results of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol study.
Identify and discuss the three situations when immediate police action can influence a crime.
In his Canadian study, Chris Braiden found that bike thefts resulted in 15 times the dollar loss when compared to bank robberies. What implications does this study have, if any, for the provision of police services?
Do the media influence how the police enforce or report crime? Explain.
Discuss the differences in victimization and incarceration rates in the United States. Explain the discrepancy.
Discuss and explain the four traditional key measures used to evaluate police.
Understand the importance of the community policing officer (CPO) in community policing efforts.
Describe the ways in which community policing can impact domestic violence homicides.
Understand and describe the significance of the RAND study.
Understand and describe the significance of the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment.
Understand the differences between traditional policing and community policing in response to crime.
List the three times when police action can influence crime.
Describe the results of the Canadian study on the impact of bank robberies versus stolen bikes performed by Chris Braiden.
Understand the purpose and limitations of the Uniform Crime Report (UCR).
List the four methods of evaluating police performance.
Discuss the role leadership plays in moving a department to community policing.
Describe the areas of focus necessary for implementing comprehensive change in a police department.
Describe COMPSTAT and identify its value to community policing efforts.
What roles, if any, do organizational culture and police values play in attempts to implement community policing programs?
Discuss the mechanisms available to police administrators that can enhance communication with the community.
The authors identify eight steps in the change process that should occur or be approximated when implementing community policing. Discuss the four steps you consider to be the most important for any agency contemplating community policing.
Discuss the role of strategic planning in the implementation of community policing.
Define “organic organization” and discuss how it is more conducive to community policing than the military model.
Describe the six principles of classical organizational theory and discuss whether or not they are relevant to policing today.
Discuss why leadership is important to community policing.
How COMSTAT can work with community policing.
Identify and describe the eight steps of implementing community policing.
List and describe the factors of comprehensive change.
Describe how organizational culture can hinder the implementation of community policing.
Describe the best way to organize a department for community policing.
Understand and define organic organization.
List the principles of classical organizational theory.
Understand the historical role of the military model in policing.
Discuss the importance of officer demeanor in contacts with the public.
Discuss the ways that police corruption impacts public perception of police.
Identify and discuss the five departmental behaviors that contribute to police problems in the community.
Describe the relationship between personal experience and public perceptions of the police.
Discuss whether race or socioeconomic status has a greater impact on people's views of police. Use information from the text to make your argument.
What is the relationship between race and public views of police?
Discuss and describe the role age plays in public perceptions of the police.
Discuss the effects of age, race, gender, and socioeconomic status on people's perceptions of the police.
Briefly discuss the seven benefits to the police and community when good relations exist.
Discuss the three groups that police officers tend to use in categorizing people.
Explain how politics affects perceptions of the police.
Discuss the barriers to good police-community relations.
Describe how personal experience tends to affect people's attitudes toward police.
Describe how socioeconomic status tends to affect people's attitudes toward police.
Describe how race tends to affect people's attitudes toward police.
Describe how gender tends to affect people's attitudes toward police.
Describe how age tends to affect people's attitudes toward police.
Understand the benefits to both the police and community when good relations exist.
Understand micro explanations of people's views of the police.
Discuss and identify the three-tiered hierarchy of community based on class.
Discuss the influence that the Internet and social networking has had on communities in the United States.
Discuss how technology has affected communities of interest in the United States.
Describe the eight ways community policing can enhance the sense of community.
Describe and discuss migration and immigration patterns as they impact communities.
Consider why is it important to assess the concept of community when studying the idea of community policing.
Discuss the major elements that make up a community as they are listed in the text.
Identify an example from contemporary times to illustrate the authors' point that a community of interest does not have to be tied to a particular geographic area.
What were the contributions of the Chicago School in studies of the community?
Discuss the importance of the distinctions about communities made by Tönnies.
Discuss the difference between a community and a neighborhood.
Discuss the role of the police in building a sense of community.
List and describe the three-tiered “hierarchy of community” based on class.
Describe the role of technology in the evolution of community.
List the factors that have contributed to a growing underclass in American society.
Describe the historical development of suburbs.
Understand the difference between community and neighborhood.
Describe differing definitions of community and list their common elements.

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