Twenty-One Mental Models That Can Change Policing: A Framework for Using Data and Research for Overcoming Cognitive Bias

ISBN-13: 9780367481476 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 210 str.

Renée J. Mitchell

Opis

This book goes beyond other police leadership books to teach practitioners how to think about policing in a structured way that synthesizes criminological theory, statistics, research design, applied research, and what works and what doesn’t in policing into Mental Models.

Spis treści

Introduction: What is a Mental Model and How Does It Help Policing;  PART I: How We Think;  Mental Model #1: System 1 and 2;  Mental Model #2: Cognitive Bias;  Mental Model #3: First Principles Thinking;  The Mental Models in Practice I: Mental Models 1-3;  Part II: How We Think About Math;  Mental Model #4: False Linear Thinking;  Mental Model #5: Binary Percent Changes;  Mental Model #6: Second Order Thinking;  The Mental Models in Practice II: Mental Models 4-6;  PART III: How Things Concentrate;  Mental Model #7: Pareto Principle;  Mental Model #8: The Law of Crime concentration;  Mental Model #9: Felonious Few;  The Mental Models in Practice III: Mental Models 7-9;  PART IV: How Things Vary;  Mental Model #10: Distributions;  Mental Model #11: Law of Large numbers;  Mental Model #12: Regression to the Mean;  The Mental Models in Practice IV: Mental Models 10-12;  PART V: How to Determine Causality;  Mental Model #13: Correlation is not Causation;  Mental Model #14: Causal Inference;  Mental Model #15: Bayesian (Probabilistic) Reasoning;  The Mental Models in Practice V: Mental Models 13-15;  Part VI: How to Think Scientifically;  Mental Model #16: Peer Review Your Perspectives;  Mental Model #17: The Scientific Method;  Mental Model #18: Evidence-based Practices;  The Mental Models in Practice VI: Mental Models 16-18;  PART VII: How to Make Decisions;  Mental Model #19: Targeting, Testing, and Tracking;  Mental Model #20: Harm Indexes;  Mental Model #21: Decision-making Models;  The Mental Models in Practice VII: Mental Models 19-21;  PART VIII: How to Apply it All;  Conclusion: How the Twenty-one Mental Models Can Improve Policing and Reduce Cognitive Bias;  Mental Model Method: How it all Fits Together Mental Models 1-21;  Notes

O autorze

Renée J. Mitchell served in the Sacramento Police Department for twenty-two years and is currently a Senior Police Researcher with RTI International. She holds a B.S. in Psychology, a M.A. in Counseling Psychology, a M.B.A., a J.D., and a Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Cambridge. She has taught and lectured internationally on evidence-based policing and is best known for being the first policing pracademic to run a randomized controlled trial. She was a Fulbright Police Research Fellow and is the co-founder and executive committee member of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing. She has two TEDx talks, "Research Not Protests" and "Policing Needs to Change: Trust me I’m a Cop," where she advocates for evidence-based policing. She has published her research in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and the Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing. Her books include Evidence Based Policing: An introduction and Implementing Evidence-Based Research: A How-to Guide for Police Organizations.