NCJ Number
146837
Date Published
1994
Length
5 pages
Annotation
This report summarizes the central issues and findings of six recently completed research projects sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and focusing on drugs and crime, antistalking legislation, community policing, and the control of police use of force.
Abstract
The research report Community Responses to Drug Abuse: A Program Evaluation (NCJ-145945) focuses on how grassroots organizations in 10 sites responded to problems caused by drugs and the specific strategies they developed to reduce drug abuse and fear and improve the quality of neighborhood life. The report Drugs and Crime in Public Housing: A Three- City Analysis (NCJ-145329) analyzes rates of drug law offenses, violent offenses, and property offenses in public housing developments in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and the District of Columbia for the period 1986-89. The report Project To Develop a Model Anti-Stalking Code for States (NCJ-144477) presents a model code against stalking, together with a profile of existing State laws; an overview of police agencies' current management of stalking incidents; and recommendations for States' consideration concerning bail and sentencing, code implementation, and stalking-related research. The report Evaluating Patrol Officer Performance Under Community Policing: The Houston Experience (NCJ-142462) evaluates a new police personnel performance evaluation process developed to support and promote Neighborhood Oriented Policing in Houston, Tex. The report Community Policing in Madison: Quality From the Inside Out, An Evaluation of Implementation and Impact (NCJ- 144390) focuses on the effort by the Madison, Wisc. Police Department to create a new organizational design to support "quality policing," a term that encompasses community- oriented policing, problemsolving, and employee-oriented management. The report The Role of Police Psychology in Controlling Excessive Force (NCJ-146206) analyzes the findings of a survey of 65 police psychologists that focused on the role of police psychologists in preventing and identifying police officers at risk for the use of excessive, nonlethal force and the factors that contribute to police use of excessive force in performing their duties. Figures