Strategies and Responses to Crime: Thinking Locally, Acting Globally

Providing detailed case studies of contemporary initiatives in policing, law enforcement, public safety and crime prevention, this unique volume features selected models that were presented by police executives and scholars at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the International Police Executive Symposium held in Turkey in 2006. Each section in the text offers different perspectives from criminal justice administrators in one of a dozen countries, including Australia, England, Japan, India, and the United States. The first book of its kind, no other text offers such a panoramic and comprehensive view of global strategies to combat different types of crime.