Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing Experiments on Building Trust
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Biografisk notat
Graeme Blair is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA and Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). He uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and improve social science research. Fotini Christia is the Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences at MIT and Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. She is the author of Alliance Formation in Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and her research has appeared in Science, Nature Human Behavior, Review of Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, and Annual Review of Political Science. Jeremy M. Weinstein is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Faculty Director of Stanford Impact Labs. He is an award-winning author and teacher with expertise in comparative politics and the political economy of development. He has also served at senior levels of the US Government, including most recently as Deputy to the US Ambassador to the United Nations.Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing Experiments on Building Trust
'Blair and colleagues ask the fundamental and difficult questions about evidence-based approaches to community policing in their work: Can it reduce crime and improve police legitimacy, and in what contexts? This volume is an essential guide for researchers and donor nations trying to test and implement community policing in the Global South (the focus of the book) and the Global North, which faces the same questions.' Cynthia Lum, Distinguished University Professor of Criminology and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason University
'A must-read for those who think that community policing is the key to effective police reform. This ambitious study involves a set of comparable experiments across six countries in the Global South. In arguably the most rigorous study of community policing to date, the editors and contributors find no impact across the large number of outcomes that they consider. Although future research will be needed to understand exactly why these efforts fail in the Global South, this result raises important questions about the efficacy and replicability of this widely celebrated approach to police reform.' Christopher Winship, Diker–Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
'Community policing has been a popular strategy, aiming to combat crime while strengthening relations between citizens and states. Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing reports on an extraordinary collection of collaborations between researchers and police forces that put these ideas to the test in 700 neighborhoods across 6 countries. Across research teams, across contexts, and for a wide range of behavioral and attitudinal measures, the findings show no support for the promised benefits of a switch to community policing. Rigorous and reflective, this book serves as a wake-up call to practitioners seeking to transplant policing models across contexts without also engaging with the underlying incentives facing police agencies.' Macartan Humphreys, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, and Director of the Institutions and Political Inequality Group, WZB Berlin
'Blair and colleagues ask the fundamental and difficult questions about evidence-based approaches to community policing in their work: Can it reduce crime and improve police legitimacy, and in what contexts? This volume is an essential guide for researchers and donor nations trying to test and implement community policing in the Global South (the focus of the book) and the Global North, which faces the same questions.' Cynthia Lum, Distinguished University Professor of Criminology and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason University
'A must-read for those who think that community policing is the key to effective police reform. This ambitious study involves a set of comparable experiments across six countries in the Global South. In arguably the most rigorous study of community policing to date, the editors and contributors find no impact across the large number of outcomes that they consider. Although future research will be needed to understand exactly why these efforts fail in the Global South, this result raises important questions about the efficacy and replicability of this widely celebrated approach to police reform.' Christopher Winship, Diker–Tishman Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
'Community policing has been a popular strategy, aiming to combat crime while strengthening relations between citizens and states. Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing reports on an extraordinary collection of collaborations between researchers and police forces that put these ideas to the test in 700 neighborhoods across 6 countries. Across research teams, across contexts, and for a wide range of behavioral and attitudinal measures, the findings show no support for the promised benefits of a switch to community policing. Rigorous and reflective, this book serves as a wake-up call to practitioners seeking to transplant policing models across contexts without also engaging with the underlying incentives facing police agencies.' Macartan Humphreys, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, and Director of the Institutions and Political Inequality Group, WZB Berlin