Critical Reflections on Evidence-Based Policing

ISBN-13: 9781138595804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Nigel Fielding; Karen Bullock; Simon Holdaway

Opis

This book contributes to current debates on evidence-based policing; it provides a critical examination of the recent history of EBP in academic, policy and practitioner communities and paves the way for a much needed change in how research ‘evidence’ is perceived, generated, transferred, implemented and evaluated.

Spis treści

Section 1: Evidence-Based Policing in Context  Introduction: Evidence-based Practice and Policing: Background and Context  1. The Development of Evidence-Based Policing in the UK: Social Entrepreneurs and the Creation of Certainty  2. Research Synthesis, Systematic Reviewing and Evidence-based Policing  3. Street-level Theories of Change: Adapting the Medical Model of Evidence-based Practice for Policing  4. Evaluation Evidence for Evidence-Based Policing: Randomistas and Realists  Section 2: Evidence-Based Policing and Police Practice  5. Evidence-Based Policing: Competing or Complementary Models?  6. Democracy, Accountability and Evidence-Based Policing: Who Calls the Shots?  7. Wicked Policing and Magical Thinking: Evidence for Policing Problems that Cannot be ‘Solved’ in an Age of ‘Alternative Facts’  Section 3: Steps Toward Applying Research Evidence to Policing  8. Changing the Narrative: Harnessing Culture as Evidence  9. Effecting Change in Policing Through Police/Academic Partnerships: The Challenges of (and for) Co-production  Section 4: Conclusion  10. Evidence-Based Practice in Policing: Future Trends