Melding police and policy to dramatically reduce crime in the city of New Orleans
Subtitle: a study of the new orleans police department
By: Kevin A. Unter ; with a foreword by Peter Scharf.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780773448674
Subjects: Crime -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Police -- Louisiana -- New Orleans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A history of crime in New Orleans and the impetus for change; title: The public policy approach to crime reduction; title: Policing and crime reduction - in general and in New Orleans; title: Establishment of models and tests of hypotheses of crime reduction; title: Judging crime policy effectiveness.