Download or read book Arrest Convictability as a Measure of Police Performance written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report explores arrest quality as a measure of police performance. A small number of officers are responsible for the majority of arrests that end in conviction; however, there is no substantial evidence for attributing variation in officer performance to personal or demographic characteristics. Data were gathered along two different but related lines: first, PROMIS data were examined from seven diverse jurisdictions; secondly, a sample of High Conviction Rate (HCR) and Low Conviction Rate (LCR) officers was surveyed in Manhattan and Washington, D.C. The study found that officers responding to crime calls should be fully aware of the importance of recovering tangible evidence and enlisting the cooperation of persons who have witnessed or know about the crime. HCR officers indicated that they tended to focus greater attention on locating and dealing with witnesses than LCR officers. HCR officers were more willing to use both a direct, factual line of questioning and a psychological, indirect approach; LCR officers preferred the indirect approach. Furthermore, HCR officers reported success in improving witness cooperation by locating additional witnesses in order to create mutual support. The lack of difference in the demographic and attitudinal portions of the interviews rules out policy recommendations in areas such as recruitment, selection, and screening. However, the study recommends that officers receive feedback from the courts in order to improve the quality of their arrests. Study data and 7 notes are provided.
Download or read book Arrest Convictability as a Measure of Police Performance written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Summary Report Arrest Convictability as a Measure of Police Performance April 23 1981 written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Police Performance and Case Attrition written by Joan Petersilia and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, less than half of all felony arrests result in convictions. This failure of arrests to come to trial is called case attrition, and most attrition occurs between arrest and filing. This study examines the differences in felony case attrition among 25 large police agencies in Los Angeles County; determines how much of the variance can be explained by differences in police practices, after crime and community characteristics are controlled for; and identifies those policies and practices that were related to higher conviction rates. The results were mixed and largely negative. The authors found that prevailing assumptions about attrition rates should be reexamined, and that statistics reflecting case-attrition patterns are not a valid basis for comparative evaluation of police departments.
Download or read book SNI written by National Criminal Justice Reference Service (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice written by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Police Science written by William G. Bailey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1995 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition (1989) is cited in ARBA 1990 and the Supplement to Sheehy . A reference that contains signed, alphabetical entries which examine all major aspects of American policing and police science, including history, current practices, new initiatives, social pressures, and political factors. The second edition considerable expands its scope with 70 new entries and revisions and updates of others. In this edition, greater emphasis is placed on the coverage of drug-abuse suppression, new types of crime, federal mandates for action, and international developments that affect American police. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, OR.
Download or read book Federal Probation written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report written by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NIJ Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thinking About Crime written by James Wilson and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering a brilliant and provocative new argument—that criminal activity is largely rational and shaped by the rewards and penalties it offers—and forever changed the way Americans think about crime. Now with a new foreword by the prominent scholar and best-selling author Charles Murray, this revised edition of Thinking About Crime introduces a new generation of readers to the theories and ideas that have been so influential in shaping the American justice system.
Download or read book The Criminal Justice Response to Victim Harm written by Jolene C. Hernon and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Selected National Institute of Justice Publications written by National Institute of Justice (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
