Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing

Graeme Blair is an Associate Professor of Political Science at UCLA and Co-Director of Training and Methods of Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP). He uses experiments, field research, and statistics to study how to reduce violence and improve social science research. Fotini Christia is the Ford International Professor of the Social Sciences at MIT and Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Research Center at the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. She is the author of Alliance Formation in Civil Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and her research has appeared in Science, Nature Human Behavior, Review of Economic Studies, American Political Science Review, and Annual Review of Political Science. Jeremy M. Weinstein is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Faculty Director of Stanford Impact Labs. He is an award-winning author and teacher with expertise in comparative politics and the political economy of development. He has also served at senior levels of the US Government, including most recently as Deputy to the US Ambassador to the United Nations.

• Part I. Crime, Insecurity, and Policing: 1. Introduction Graeme Blair, Fotini Christia and Jeremy M. Weinstein; 2. Crime, violence, and insecurity Graeme Blair, Fotini Christia and Jeremy M. Weinstein; 3. The policing challenge Graeme Blair, Ellen Chapin, Fotini Christia and Jeremy M. Weinstein; 4. Understanding community policing Graeme Blair, Fotini Christia, Andrew Miller and Jeremy M. Weinstein; 5. Studying community policing Graeme Blair, Fotini Christia and Jeremy M. Weinstein; Part II. The Effects of Community Policing: 6. Meta-analysis of the effects of community policing Graeme Blair, Fotini Christia, Fatiq Nadeem and Jeremy M. Weinstein; 7. Can trust be built through citizen monitoring of police activity? Evidence from Santa Catarina, Brazil Daniel Barbosa, Thiemo Fetzer, Caterina Soto and Pedro C. L. Souza; 8. Do police-community meetings work? Experimental evidence from Medellín, Colombia Rebecca Hanson, Dorothy Kronick, Tara Slough and Eric Arias; 9. Community policing, vigilantism, and the rule of law: Evidence from Liberia Benjamin S. Morse; 10. Community policing and citizen trust in Pakistan Ali Cheema, Ahsan Zia Farooqui, Ali Hasanain, Jacob N. Shapiro and Zulfiqar Hameed; 11. Community policing in the Philippines: Communication, trust, and service provision Dotan Haim, Matthew Nanes and Nico Ravanilla; 12. Restoring police-community relations in Uganda Robert A. Blair, Guy Grossman and Anna M. Wilke; Part III. Reflecting on Community Policing: 13. Understanding partnerships with the police Graeme Blair, Ellen Chapin, Fotini Christia and Jeremy M. Weinstein; 14. Conclusion Graeme Blair, Fotini Christia and Jeremy M. Weinstein; References.

'Blair and colleagues ask the fundamental and difficult questions about evidence-based approaches to community policing in their work: Can it reduce crime and improve police legitimacy, and in what contexts? This volume is an essential guide for researchers and donor nations trying to test and implement community policing in the Global South (the focus of the book) and the Global North, which faces the same questions.' Cynthia Lum, Distinguished University Professor of Criminology and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, George Mason University