Strategic Responses to Crime: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally

Oct. 18, 2011 - PRLog -- Every year, esteemed scholars and practitioners meet at the International Police Executive Symposium to discuss contemporary issues in policing and share ideas about effective strategies in their jurisdictions. Drawn from the proceedings at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting held in Turkey and updated with new developments since the conference, Strategic Responses to Crime: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally describes how local police agencies are addressing issues of crime that have global implications.

With contributions from a diverse panel of experts, the book combines scholarly perspectives with those of practitioners and explores issues in various cultural settings worldwide. Topics discussed include:

• Community policing and police innovations such as safety and security councils
• Performance management systems in police organizations
• Efforts to combat drug cultivation and trafficking
• International terrorism and individuals’ motivations for joining terrorist organizations
• Approaches for handling and policing the mentally ill in accordance with human rights
  concerns
• Cybercrime and child sexual abuse
• Crime scene assessment, information gathering, and case development and
  management
• Jurisprudence, law, and empirical research related to racial profiling in the United
  States
• Computer technology and crime analysis tools and models
• Emerging police administration strategies

Combining empirical evidence from scholarly studies with in-the-trenches experience from practitioners, this volume assembles critical insight into a range of issues relevant to policing in the 21st century.

About the Author

Melchor C. de Guzman -- Dr. de Guzman is currently an assistant professor of criminal justice at the College of Brockport at the State University of New York. He earned his doctorate degree in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, USA.  Dr. de Guzman’s research includes the examination of citizen participation in the control of the police primarily through the civilian review boards. He also investigates organizational factors that influence police behavior and community oriented policing. His most recent research includes the utilization of websites by police departments in the delivery of police services. Prior to joining the academe, Dr. de Guzman was a Senate Secretary for the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security in the Philippines. He also lectured in the National Police College of the Philippines’ Masters in Public Safety Administration. In addition he lectured on research and leadership courses to Philippine police officers taking the Officers’ Senior Executive Course (OSEC). He was also a Director of the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office in the Philippines. Dr. de Guzman could be reached by phone at 585-395-5785 and by email at mdeguzma@brockport.edu

Endorsement

"Strategic Responses to Crime: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally edited by Melchor de Guzman is a wide-ranging volume that combines the perspectives of both scholars and police executives from around the globe, including chapters focused on both emerging and established democratic societies. The volume covers important global innovations in community policing, emerging transnational issues, such as drug trafficking and terrorism, and the use of information in police agencies, among other issues of importance to anyone interested in a global perspective on policing. This volume would make an excellent supplement to any course on policing, providing students with a broader perspective than is typically presented in most textbooks."
—Brad Smith, Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University

ISBN:  9781420076691, 365 pp., Hardback, $99.95

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