This book addresses and reviews progress in a major innovative development within police work known as evidence-based policing. It involves a significant extens
Evidence-based policing is based on the straightforward, but powerful, idea that crime prevention and crime control policy should be based on what works best in
Crime prevention policy and practice is, on the whole, far from objective. Instead of being based on scientific evidence, the crime policy agenda is seemingly d
Argues that evidence-based policing is not just the process of evaluating police practices, but also about translating that knowledge into digestible and useabl
Risk-based policing is a research advancement that improves public safety, and its applications prevent crime specifically by managing crime risks. In Risk-Base
