Actively Caring for People Policing: Building Positive Police/Citizen Relations

Synopsis

A revolutionary new approach to policing that puts people over punishment. Experts have struggled to define the term &“police culture.&” For most, this label means a reactive approach to keeping people safe by using punitive consequences to punish or detain the perpetrators. The result: More attention is given to the negative, reactive side of policing than a positive, proactive approach to preventing crime by cultivating an interdependent culture of residents looking out for the safety, health, and well-being of each other. In Actively Caring for People Policing, authors E. Scott Geller and Bobby Kipper show how police officers can play a critical and integral role in achieving such a community of compassion—an Actively Caring for People (AC4P) culture. With AC4P policing, consequences are used to increase the quantity and improve the quality of desired behavior. Police officers are educated about the rationale behind using more positive than negative consequences to manage behavior, and then they are trained on how to deliver positive consequences in ways that help to cultivate interpersonal trust and AC4P behavior among police officers and the citizens they serve. The result: humanistic behaviorism to enhance long-term positive relations between police officers and the citizens they serve, thereby preventing interpersonal conflict, violence, and harm.

Copyright:

2017

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

117 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781683500568

Related ISBNs:

9781683500551

Publisher:

Morgan James Publishing, LLC

Date of Addition:

01/11/25

Copyrighted By:

E. Scott Geller, Bobby Kipper, Brett C. Railey

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Psychology, Social Studies, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Foreword by:

Brett C. Railey