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Crime and Policing in America

How many are cleared - clearance rate?How are they cleared?How many are reported?Why are so few reported and cleared?CJS has little access to crime!

What regulates crime? (aging in, aging out)

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Brief history of police

Modern crime and police originate with industrialization and urbanization

Surplus populations

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Policing in America

Police and urbanization (and corruption!)

Surplus pops move west (low crime rates)

Reform and professional police (and alienation!) explain

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Contemporary Police

What police do - patrol

The Kansas City experiments - patrol has no effect on crime rates

Police and social problems

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Police Culture (and educ and diversity)

Clannishness and alienation (the "blue curtain" and "thin blue line")

Racism and police culture (key is segregation)

*** Police and Suicide

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Community Policing

Police reform

General aims of community policing

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Summary

Because police are the "front line" of the CJS and clearance rates are chronically low, the CJS actually

has little access to crime. So nothing that the CJS does

or can do is likely to reduce crime very much, if at all.

In short, "nothing works” with respect to reducing crime

through CJ policy alone.