{"product_id":"electronic-community-oriented-policing-theories-contemporary-efforts-and-future-directions-9781793607843","title":"Electronic Community-Oriented Policing: Theories,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHu and Lovrich introduce the \"electronic community-oriented policing (E-COP),\" concept to explore how social media can impact police strategies on improving and maintaining police-public relation. Using empirical evidence and theoretical foundations, this book demonstrates the importance of this timely refinement to traditional community-oriented policing strategies as we move further into the twentieth century. E-COP represents a systematic approach to policing that applies knowledge derived from theories of individual behavior, social behavior, and mass communication dynamics to contemporary policing practice. This book would be of interest to policing researchers, scholars, and students as well as police practitioners wishing to improve their use of social media resources to connect to the public they serve in the digital age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs one who has been reading, writing, and researching Community-Oriented Policing since the late 1980s, I have seen it change over the years, moving from the innovation generation in the 1980s, to diffusion in the 1990s, and institutionalization in the 2000s, but had no way of conceptualizing modern Community-Oriented Policing; that is at least until now. Lovrich and Hu not only introduce the next generation in their appropriately titled book Electronic Community-Oriented Policing: Theories, Contemporary Efforts, and Future Directions, but they use a mixed-methods approach to demonstrate all the complexities of modern Community-Oriented Policing. If you are looking for a book to understand Community-Oriented Policing today, this is the book to read. -- Willard M. Oliver, Sam Houston State University\u003cbr\u003ePolice strategies around social media practices have emerged over much of the last decade yet there remain a limited number of studies that have examined police practices on social media. This book provides an exploratory study of one side of police use of social media by focusing largely on Facebook. Employing a multi-disciplinary perspective and mixed methods approach, Xiaochen Hu and Nicholas Lovrich provide important insights into some contemporary developments in virtual policing, or electronic community-oriented policing (E-COP). This timely book sets out agendas for police practices on social media and future research into E-COP, which will continue to develop and expand into a core policing strategy. This book will be of great interest to police practitioners at all levels, scholars as well as students in psychology, sociology, and mass communication, and the general public. -- Christopher J. Schneider, Brandon University, author of Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of New Media\u003cbr\u003eWhile social media have become a central topic in social inquiry, the implications of such communication channels for criminal justice have yet to be thoroughly explored. In this careful and rigorous study, Hu and Lovrich address this gap and offer an innovative account of police use of social media. They develop and deploy a concept – that of E-COP – to explore they ways that social media are impacting and reshaping community-oriented policing and public engagement with criminal justice and law enforcement. The resulting book offers an important new development in our understanding of criminal justice and new media, and promises to help guide the engagement of law enforcement actors with citizens in the digital age. It is highly recommended for students, scholars, practitioners and policy makers interested in the future of policing. -- Majid Yar, Lancaster University\u003cbr\u003eIn politics, culture, and personal interactions new media have become the dominant communication channels. Along with other institutions the police have been swept up in this media tide, but the roots, impacts, and implications of this shift have not been discussed in a coherent way. Therefore, Electronic Community-Oriented Policing by Xiaochen Hu and Nicholas Lovrich is a needed and welcome addition to the police-media literature. In this research-grounded, thoroughly referenced work, the authors move beyond the common speculations regarding new media effects on law enforcement that dominate the literature. In contrast, they employ recent research and how various police agencies actually use social media to develop a rigorous model of the emerging police-social media interactions. Grounding their work in the historical roots of community-oriented policing and culling ideas from mass media and communications theories, they have crafted the contemporary concept of “electronic community-oriented policing” which blends the historical trends in policing with the effects of new media on law enforcement. This book will be valuable to researchers, students, and practitioners who wish to better understand social media’s effects and their potential for improving police community relations. Their effort fills an enormous gap in the policing literature and could not have been written at a better time. -- Ray Surette, University of Central Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Police, Media, and New Media \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Media, the Criminal Justice System, and the Police \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: New Media and Police \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Conceptualization of Electronic Community-Oriented Policing: Theoretical Foundations \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Theories on Individual, Social, Mass Communication, and Organizational Behavior \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Community-Oriented Policing and the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Electronic Community-Oriented Policing: Core Concepts and Strategies \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: Contemporary Electronic Community-Oriented Policing Efforts \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: What Do the Police Do on Social Media? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Public Preferences Regarding Police Use of Social Media \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Outliers: Facebook Posts That Received Extraordinary Public Attention \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Case Study: Small Police Agency Use of Facebook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Future Directions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Improving Electronic Community-Oriented Policing \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Implementing and Evaluating Electronic Community-Oriented Policing \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion and Future Research: Computer Science, Police Research, and Social Media","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042620866903,"sku":"9781793607843","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/electronic-community-oriented-policing-theories-contemporary-efforts-and-future-directions-9781793607843","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}