Full Description
This edited collection reflects contemporary challenges faced by police forces across the globe and the role of technology in addressing them. The use of science and technology raises questions about ethics, training, the well-being of people, and freedom. New technologies promise to foster police practices based on intelligence, accuracy, and preparedness, and are considered necessary to overcome challenges such as declining budgets, lack of personnel, and legitimacy. However, technologies can also be used for authoritarian and nefarious purposes. For those reasons, this book aims to discuss related topics from various contexts to establish connections among common problems in the field of policing across the globe.
This book provides an internationally relevant assessment of the use of technology in the field of policing, as well as the impact on training and police well-being. It is ideal for an academic audience at both graduate and undergraduate levels in the fields of criminal justice studies, police studies, legal sociology, and public policy, and will be of interest to police practitioners, legal professionals, social service workers, and public-sector managers.
Contents
Introduction
Vicente Riccio, Di Jia & Dilip K. Das
1. Performance evaluation of integrated public security areas: Application of the PROMETHEE II method in the Brazilian context
Marcio Pereira Basilio, Valdecy Pereira, Max William Coelho Moreira de Oliveira & Antonio Fernandes da Costa Neto
2. Addressing the Challenges of Law Enforcement Higher Education in Hungary
László Christián
3. The Formation of the Local Prevention Police Units at the National University of Lanús
Daniel Russo & Alejandro Hener
4. Exploring an incorporated model of community justice in Chinese immigrant community: The perspective of law enforcement
Jurg Gerber, Di Jia & Charles W. Russo
5. Understanding Officer's Behavior in a Non-Traffic Situation: Why will police officers use force and verbally attack citizens during a street stop?
Francis D. Boateng & Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh
6. The determinant factors of religious radicalization: The case of Kyrgyzstan
Erlan Bakiev & Zairbek Kozhomberdiev
7. Cameras, community, and police: possible correlations in the evaluation of the body-worn cameras for the Brazilian Federal Highway Police
Otávio Lacerda, Eduardo Magrone, Vicente Riccio and Wagner Silveira Rezende
8. Officer Suicide: Agency Protocol and Prevention Strategies
Charles W. Russo, Jarrod Sadulski & Matthew Loux
9. Police suicide in Brazil: What do we know about?
Dayse Assunção Miranda & Fernanda Cruz
10. PTSD: Is it Pension Worthy
Charles Russo & Stephanie Myers-Hunziker
11. Addictive Hypervigilance and Uncontrolled Police Use of Force
Jesse Cheng
12. The Law Enforcement Workforce Crisis: Developing Targeted Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Future Generations
Nicole Cain
