COMMUNITY-ORIENTED POLICING - A SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO POLICING

The fourth edition of Oliver’s community-oriented policing textbook presents an expanded and slightly reformatted textbook in order to clearly present the current state of community-oriented policing in America and across the globe. The results of over 50 peer-review studies in community-oriented policing are included in the latest edition, as well as the numerous writings on community-oriented policing over the previous three years. The book has been reformatted by eliminating the synthesis chapter from the previous editions in order to bring the expanded book back into a more acceptable format and size of 15 chapters without losing the comprehensive scope as seen in previous editions. In addition, current material related to the discussion of community-oriented policing in an era of Homeland Security is addressed, as well as the recent federal budget cuts to community-oriented policing programs.