Research and Policing : the infraestructure and political economy of federal funding
By: SHERMAN, Lawrence
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, May 2004The Annals of The American Academy of Political and Social Science 593, p. 156-178Abstract: Despite major progress in social science helping police to prevent crime, federal funding for police research is at its lowest level in thirty-five years. Only a major restructuring of the political economy of criminology seems likely to revive research with and for the police. For about $1 per American per year, federal funding for "Centers for Crime Prevention" could be established in all sixty-seven cities of more 205,000 people and in each of the twenty states with no cities that large. By creating much stronger grassroots engagement in research, both the consumption and the production of social science could be greatly strengthened to improve the effectiveness and fairness of police practice
Despite major progress in social science helping police to prevent crime, federal funding for police research is at its lowest level in thirty-five years. Only a major restructuring of the political economy of criminology seems likely to revive research with and for the police. For about $1 per American per year, federal funding for "Centers for Crime Prevention" could be established in all sixty-seven cities of more 205,000 people and in each of the twenty states with no cities that large. By creating much stronger grassroots engagement in research, both the consumption and the production of social science could be greatly strengthened to improve the effectiveness and fairness of police practice
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