CRJC 605 - Community Policing

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

This graduate course offers an overview of relevant theoretical perspectives for understanding the origins, evolution, and practice of community policing. Students will be expected to become familiar with both classic and recent important contributions to the scientific literature covering community policing. This course will introduce students to the dynamics of policing as s science, and will address strategies of policing the many diverse populations in America as well as the contemporary issues that face them. Students will explore policing reforms such as community policing, Problem Oriented Policing, Neighborhood Policing, and Strategic Policing. Students also will address issues that face the police on a daily basis, such as profiling, use of force, gratuities, and corruption.

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CRJC 605 - Community Policing