TY - JOUR
T1 - Problem-oriented policing in public housing
T2 - The jersey city evaluation
AU - Mazerolle, Lorraine Green
AU - Ready, Justin
AU - Terrill, William
AU - Waring, Elin
N1 - Funding Information:
* The research for this paper was supported by Grant 94-IJ-CX-0063 from the National Institute of Justice. Opinions or points of view expressed in the paper do not necessarily represent the official positions or policies of the National Institute of Justice or the U.S. Department of Justice. We would like to thank Deputy Chief Frank Gajewski, Professor David Weisburd, Lieutenant Brian McDonough, Lieutenant Charles Bellucci, Elyse Revere, Cyndy Mamalian, John Schwartz, and members of the public housing site teams for their help, cooperation, and insight at various points in the project. Please address all correspondence to Lorraine Green Mazerolle at the University of Cincinnati, Division of Criminal Justice, PO Box 210389, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0389. ** Lorraine Green Mazerolle is an associate professor in the Division of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. She has received numerous National Institute of Justice-sponsored grants on topics such as police technologies, civil remedies and street-level drug enforcement, crime in public housing, and problem-oriented policing. Professor Green Mazerolle is the author of Policing Places with Drug Problems (Sage Publications) and a co-editor, with Jan Roehl, of Civil Remedies and Crime Prevention. She has written numerous scholarly articles on policing, drug enforcement, displacement of crime, and crime prevention. She received her PhD from Rutgers University in 1993. *** Justin Ready is a senior research associate at the Police Foundation and a doctoral candidate at Rutgers University, School of Criminal Justice. He recently directed field research for a project funded by the National Institute of Justice, titled "Measuring Displacement and Diffusion: An Analysis of the Indirect Impacts of Community Policing." He is now the project director for a project funded by the Office of Community Oriented Police Services, titled "Bringing the Victim into Community Policing." He teaches Police and Communities at Rutgers University; his interests focus on problem-oriented policing, offenders' movement patters, and crime prevention in public housing. **** William Terrill is an assistant professor at Indiana University at Indianapolis. He served as the project manager on the Jersey City Approach to Solving Drug and Violent Crime Problems in Public Housing during the first year of the project, and most recently served as the field research director for the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN), which examined street-level policing in Indianapolis and in St. Petersburg, Florida. Presently he is involved in research on police use of force. William Terrill received his PhD from Rutgers University. ***** Elin Waring is an assistant professor of sociology at Lehman College and at the City University of New York Graduate School. Her research focuses on white-collar crime, organized crime, and the social organization of crime. Her current JUSTICE QUARTERLY, Vol. 17 No. 1, March 2000 © 2000 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
PY - 2000/3/1
Y1 - 2000/3/1
N2 - This paper examines the impact of a problem-oriented policing project on serious crime problems in six public housing sites in Jersey City, New Jersey. Representatives from the police department and the local housing authority, social service providers, and public housing tenants formed six problem-solving teams. Using systematic documentation of the teams’ activities and calls for police service, we examine changes in serious crime both across and within the six sites over a 2%-year period. We find that problem- oriented policing, as compared with traditional policing strategies used before the problem-oriented policing project, led to fewer serious crime calls for service over time and that two public housing sites in particular succeeded in reducing violent, property, and vehicle-related crimes.
AB - This paper examines the impact of a problem-oriented policing project on serious crime problems in six public housing sites in Jersey City, New Jersey. Representatives from the police department and the local housing authority, social service providers, and public housing tenants formed six problem-solving teams. Using systematic documentation of the teams’ activities and calls for police service, we examine changes in serious crime both across and within the six sites over a 2%-year period. We find that problem- oriented policing, as compared with traditional policing strategies used before the problem-oriented policing project, led to fewer serious crime calls for service over time and that two public housing sites in particular succeeded in reducing violent, property, and vehicle-related crimes.
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U2 - 10.1080/07418820000094501
DO - 10.1080/07418820000094501
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AN - SCOPUS:0346437679
SN - 0741-8825
VL - 17
SP - 129
EP - 158
JO - Justice Quarterly
JF - Justice Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -