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Problem Oriented Policing Best Practices

Crime Prevention - General

Crime, Grime, Fear and Decline: A Longitudinal Look
Ralph B. Taylor, National Institute of Justice, Research in Brief, July 1999

What Can Police Do to Reduce Crime, Disorder, and Fear?
Weisburd and Eck – American Academy of Political and Social Science
Preventing Crime - What Works, What Doesn't and What's Promising
National Institute of Justice
Case Studies of Community Anti-Drug Efforts
Weingart, Hartmann and Osborne, National Institute of Justice, Research in Brief, September 1994

Understanding and Preventing Violence
Roth

Video Surveillance of Public Places
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

Tackling Crime and Other Public Safety Problems, Part 1
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

Tackling Crime and Other Public Safety Problems, Part 2
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

Tackling Crime and Other Public Safety Problems, Part 3
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

Tackling Crime and Other Public Safety Problems, Part 4
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

Tackling Crime and Other Public Safety Problems, Part 5
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services

Problem Oriented Policing (POP) - General

Solving Crime Problems in Residential Neighborhoods: Comprehensive Changes in Design, Management, and Use
National Institute of Justice – Issues and Practices
Citizen Action for Neighborhood Safety
Institute for Law and Justice, Inc.
Case Studies of Community Anti-Drug Efforts
Weingart, Hartmann and Osborne, National Institute of Justice, Research in Brief, September 1994
Targeted Community Action Planning Toolkit
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Chicago Bibliography about Community Policing
Problem Oriented Drug Enforcement
United States Depatment of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance
Problem Oriented Policing, Case Studies
United States Department of Justice
Problem Solving in Practice; Implementing Community Policing in Chicago
United States Department of Justice

Community Building

Community Building Comes of Age
Kingsley, McNeely and Gibson, The Urban Institute, April 1997

Community Development in the 1990s
Christopher Walker, The Urban Institute, Weinheimer & Associates, September 1998

Chapter 12, The Business Community
New Directions from the Field: Victims Rights and Services for the 21st Century, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998

Organizing Stakeholders, Building Movement, Setting the Agenda
Xavier de Souza Briggs, Community Problem-Solving Project, Harvard University, June 2003
Perfect Fit or Shotgun Marriage?: Understanding the Power and Pitfalls in Parnerships
Robert Stokes, Neil Donahue, Dawn Caron and Jack R. Greene, April 2002 Xavier de Souza Briggs, Community Problem-Solving Project, Harvard University, May 2003
Planning Together: How (and How Not) to Engage Stakeholders in Charting a Course
Robert Stokes, Neil Donahue, Dawn Caron and Jack R. Greene, April 2002 Xavier de Souza Briggs, Community Problem-Solving Project, Harvard University, June 2003
Understanding Community Justice Partnerships: Assessing the Capacity to Partner
Roman, Moore, Jenkins & Small, Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute,
May 2002

Baltimore's Comprehensive Communities Program: A Case Study
Roth and Kelling, U.S. Department of Justice, March 2004

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CEPTED)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Community Policing
Fleissner and Heinzelmann, National Institute of Justice, Reaseach in Action, August 1996
Creating Defensible Space
Oscar Newman, Institute for Community Design Analysis, April 1996
Physical Environment and Crime: A Final Summary Report
Taylor and Harrell, National Institute of Justice, January 1996

Crime and Place: Plenary Papers of the 1997 Conference on Criminal Justice Research and EvaluationTaylor, Bazemore, Boland, Clear, Corbett, Feinblatt, Berman, Sviridoff & Stone, NCJ, July 1998

School Safety

Safe Travel To and From School: a Problem-Oriented Policing Approach
Robert Stokes, Neil Donahue, Dawn Caron and Jack R. Greene, April 2002

Crime Analysis/Mapping

Crime and Place: Plenary Papers of the 1997 Conference on Criminal Justice Research and EvaluationTaylor, Bazemore, Boland, Clear, Corbett, Feinblatt, Berman, Sviridoff & Stone, NCJ, July 1998

Crime Reporting

 

Youth Violence and Prevention

Gang Suppression and Intervention: Community Models—Research Summary
Spergel, Chance, Ehrensaft, Regulus, Kane, Laseter, Alexander & Oh, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, October 1994

Juvenile Crime as a Community Health Issue—An Analysis of the 1998 Muskegon County Juvenile Division Survey
Muskegon County Health Department, Muskegon County Family Court, January 2000

Reducing Youth Gun Violence: An Overview of Programs and Initiatives—Program Summary
Shay Bilchik, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, May 1996

Selected Annotated Bibliography on Youth and Gang Violence Prevention, Community Team Organizing and Training, and Cultural Awareness Curricula
Family and Youth Services Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, May 1995

Youth Gang Drug Trafficking and Homicide: Policy and Program Implicatios
James C. Howell, Juvenile Justice Journal, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinqunecy Prevention, December 1997

Youth, Guns, and the Juvenile Justice System
Butts, et al, The Urban Institute, The Joyce Foundation, 2002
Targeted Community Action Planning Toolkit
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Youth Gang Drug Trafficking
James C. Howell, Juvenile Justice Journal, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinqunecy Prevention, December 1999

Reducing Gun Violence - The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire
Kennedy, Braga, Piehl and Waring, NCJ, September 2001

Report to Congress on Juvenile Violence Research
Shay Bilchik, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, July 1999

Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence
Shay Bilchik, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, February 1999

Reducing Youth Gun Violence - An Overview of Programs and Initiatives
Shay Bilchik, Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention, May 1996

The Dynamics of Deterrence: Youth Gun Violence in Portland
Kapsch, Louis and Oleson, U.S. Department of Justice, January 2004

The Youth Gangs, Drugs and Violence Connection
Howell and Decker, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, January 1999

How Youth Offenders Perceive Gun Violence
Goldberg and Schwabe, U.S. Department of Justice, December 2000

Community Surveying

A Police Guide to Surveying Citizens and Their Environment
Bureau of Justice Assistance, October 1993
Conducting Community Surveys: A Practical Guide for Law Enforcement Agencies
Deborah Weisel, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Community Oriented Policing, October 1999

Community Oriented Policing

Understanding Community Justice Partnerships: Assessing the Capacity to Partner
Roman, Moore, Jenkins & Small, Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute,
May 2002
Understanding Community Policing: A Framework for Action
Bureau of Justice Assistance, August 1994
Implementation Challenges in Community Policing: Innovative Neighborhood-Oriented Policing in Eight Cities
Sadd and Grinc, National Institute of Justice, Research in Brief, February 1996
Chicago Bibliography about Community Policing
Preventing Crime - What Works, What Doesn't and What's Promising
National Institute of Justice

Gun Violence Reduction

Reducing Gun Violence: The St. Louis Consent-to-Search Program
National Institute of Justice, November 2004

Reducing Firearms Violence Through Directed Patrol
Final Report on the Evaluation of the Indianapolis Police Department Directed Patrol Project

Reducing Firearms Violence through Directed Police Patrol: Final Report on the Evaluation of the Indianapolis Police Department's Directed Patrol Project
McGarrell, Chermak and Weiss, U.S. Department of Justice, May 2002

Strategic Approaches to Reducing Firearms Violence: Final Report on the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership
McGarrell and Chermak, U.S. Department of Justice, January 2004

Working with Victims of Gun Violence
Bonderman, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Victims of Crime, July 2001

Faith Based Initiatives: Improving Safety and Community/Police Relations

Boston's Operation Homefront Involves Police, Clergy in Helping
Fort Worth Trains Ministers to Increase Public Safety
CITY OF ANAHEIM - Neighborhood Improvement Process
CITY OF HOUSTON, TX - Program: City-Wide "March On Crime" Parade
CITY OF NORFOLK, VA - Police Assisted Community Enforcement, Spiritual Action for Empowerment (PACE SAFE)
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - Seven Parishes Collaborate in MetroVision Regional School-to-Career Partnership
CITY OF HOUSTON, TX - Program: Prejudice Awareness Summits (In Conjunction with the Jewish Women International
Oak Park's Gang Prevention/Intervention Program Demonstrates Its Effectiveness
CITY OF FORT WORTH, TX - Ministers Against Crime (MAC)
CITY OF LIMA - Study Circle

POP - Crime/Problem Specific

"Glitter Track": The Use of a Temporary Restraining Order to Solve the Prostitution Problem
San Diego Police Department, California, 1994

The Expanding Role of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design in Premises Liability
Gordon and Brill, National Institute of Justice, Research in Brief, April 1996

Responding to Gangs: Evaluation and Research
Reed and Decker, NCJ, July 2002

Community Justice and a Vision of Collective Efficacy
Gordon Basemore – Policies, Processes, and Decisions of the Criminal Justice System

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    The Collaborative Agreement directs the Parties to establish a library of "best practices" in the area of Problem Oriented Policing. The library will assist officers and the community in the resolution of a number of issues. As new information on problem solving evolves, the library will be updated.