Police Use of Research Evidence Recommendations for Improvement
This brief takes the reader through a 10-year journey of seeking to embed Evidence Based Policing within one of the largest police forces in the world - the Metropolitan Police Service in London, England - from the inside. As a topic, Evidence Based Polic
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Elizabeth A. Stanko Paul Dawson
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SpringerBriefs in Criminology Translational Criminology
Series Editors: Cynthia Lum, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA Christopher Koper, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA Editorial Board: John Laub, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Laurie O. Robinson, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA David Weisburd, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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Elizabeth A. Stanko • Paul Dawson
Police Use of Research Evidence Recommendations for Improvement
Elizabeth A. Stanko Twickenham, UK
Paul Dawson London, UK
Additonal material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com ISSN 2192-8533 ISSN 2192-8541 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Criminology ISBN 978-3-319-20647-9 ISBN 978-3-319-20648-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20648-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015945949 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © The Author(s) 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
If you want to reform your police force from within, this monograph offers you a roadmap to navigate what was once described in a Lords debate on policing in the UK, ‘as crawling over broken glass in the dark’. If you are outside and want real reform of front-line operations as opposed to rebadging or superficial gestures it would be wise to take account of Professor Stanko’s 10-year and Paul Dawson’s 5-year experience on the inside of the London Met attempting evidenced change. It is timely seeking to catch the current tide on evidence-based reform. However reform is not just testing in the UK, as Wes Skogan reminds us from the USA: .(It). is hard, the political risks involved are
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