Applied police research : challenges and opportunities / edited by Ella Cockbain and Johannes Knutsson.
"This book is dedicated to applied research into policing, its characteristics, challenges and opportunities. It focuses on the process of conducting research that can usefully inform policy and practice. Despite growing demand for such evidence, remarkably little has been written about the the...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Series: | Crime science series (Routledge (Firm)) ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Ella Cockbain and Johannes Knutsson
- 2. Working in the field : police research in theory and in practice / David Kennedy
- 3. Getting a foot in the closed door : practical advice for starting out in research into crime and policing issues / Ella Cockbain
- 4. Tip-toeing through the credibility mine field : gaining social acceptance in policing research / Rick Brown
- 5. Trust me, I'm a researcher / Gloria Laycock
- 6. Organized crime research : challenging assumptions and informing policy / Edward R. Kleemans
- 7. Practical academics : positive outcomes of police-researcher collaborations / Tamara D. Madensen and William H. Sousa
- 8. Numbers and narratives / Eli B. Silverman
- 9. Politics, promises and problems : the rise and fall of the Swedish police evaluation unit / Johannes Knutsson
- 10. An inside job : managing mismatched expectations and unwanted findings when conducting police research as a police officer / Stefan Holgersson
- 11. Police research as mastering the tango : the dance and its meanings / Jack R. Greene
- 12. There is nothing so theoretical as good practice : police-researcher coproduction of place theory / John E. Eck
- 13. There is nothing so practical as a good theory : teacher-learner relationships in applied research for policing / Nick Tilley.