Criminal Laws and police practices are often driven by criminological research (Criminology): Thus the researchers go out and examine a problem, then promote a solution (legislation) based on what they found.
For this assignment you will go to the National Police Foundation (Links to an external site.) website and research the Ideas in American Policing Library under the Publications tab. There you will find a slew of documents about different types of criminological research and programs relating to making policing better or delivering justice in a different way. Watch a video, read a doc and entertain yourself a bit with some of these new ideas.
Once you’ve explored some of the documents here you will write a short paper summarizing how empirical evidence and relevant criminological theory guide problem solving and the examination of the nature and causes of crime. Paper should explain the relationship between research and practice and how we use research to create and improve police practices.
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