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Community Policing

7th Edition

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Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective, 7th ed.

By Victor E. Kappeler and Larry K. Gaines

Community policing is a philosophy and organizational strategy that expands the traditional police mandate of fighting crime to include forming partnerships with citizenry that endorse mutual support and participation. The first textbook of its kind, Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective delineates this progressive approach, combining the accrued wisdom and experience of its established authors with the latest research-based insights to help students apply what is on the page to the world beyond.

This seventh edition extends the road map presented by Robert Trojanowicz, the father of community policing, and brings it into contemporary focus. The text has been revised throughout to include the most current developments in the field, including "Spotlight on Community Policing Practice" features that focus on real-life community policing programs in various cities as well as problem-solving case studies. Also assisting the reader in understanding the material are Learning Objectives, Key Terms, and Discussion Questions, in addition to numerous links to resources outside the text. A glossary and an appendix, "The Ten Principles of Community Policing," further enhance learning of the material.

Community Policing Guidebooks

Guidebooks are available on the “Students” tab of the Companion Website. These guidebooks, as well as their accompanying videos, are part of a self-paced study series prepared by the Kentucky Community Oriented Policing Services Office at Eastern Kentucky University. The original purpose of the series was to inform law enforcement officers about the principles of community policing. This can be considered the correspondence version of a 40-hour classroom course called “COP: Community Policing Kentucky-Style for Officers,” and has now been made available to professors and students who could not attend that course, but wish to learn the same material.

Guidebooks 2 through 13 are each accompanied by 10 to 20 minutes of related video in which law enforcement personnel are interviewed about their experience with and the perceived efficacy of specific community policing tenets.

Instructor Resources

Additional resources are available to professors on the password-protected “Instructors” tab of the Companion Website. For each chapter, there are instructor materials created by Gary Neumeyer, criminal justice professor at Arizona Western College. The site includes the following for each chapter:

  • Instructor’s Guides, with chapter summaries, learning objectives, lists of key terms, critical thinking questions, discussion points, student activities, and relevant links and videos, some dealing with hot topics such as the Eric Garner police chokehold case.
  • PowerPoint presentations for classroom use.
  • Test bank including multiple-choice, true/false, and essay questions.