TY - BOOK ID - 134662353 TI - Police Theory in America PY - 2009 SN - 0398085684 9780398085681 9780398078720 0398078726 9780398078737 0398078734 PB - Springfield Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD DB - UniCat KW - Criminology --United States. KW - Law enforcement --United States. KW - Police --United States. KW - Law enforcement KW - Police KW - Criminology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134662353 AB - The purpose of this book is to assist both police leaders and city administrators with the long-standing challenge of implementing effective and acceptable crime prevention programs. Police departments have been organized to react to crime. The police in America are not organized to prevent crime. With this protracted dilemma in mind, this book is written to facilitate change in municipal policing and to identify effective methods for the implementation of crime prevention programs. The first chapters identify the problem and the need to fully understand the dilemma. From the cost of reactive ER -