Dennis P. Rosenbaum

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• Ph.D.
• Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois Chicago

Objectives To describe and evaluate Chicago’s Quality Interaction Program (QIP) for police recruits. The training focused on procedural justice, interpersonal communication, decision-making, cultural awareness, and stress management during encounters with the public. Attention was given to emotions, empathy, and communication skills. Methods The Q...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the dimensions of organizational justice in police organizations and evaluate how they contribute to organizational commitment, job satisfaction and compliance with agency rules. Design/methodology/approach A survey of 15,236 sworn officers from a national sample of 88 agencies was used, as well as o...

Purpose There is widespread interest in moving beyond crime statistics to measure police performance in new ways, especially the quality of police-community interactions that influence police legitimacy and public trust. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Police-Community Interaction Survey (PCIS) developed by the National Police Researc...

Purpose There is widespread interest in moving beyond crime statistics to measure police performance in new ways, especially the quality of police-community interactions that influence police legitimacy and public trust. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the Police-Community Interaction Survey (PCIS) developed by the National Police Researc...

Objectives To introduce and evaluate the Police–Citizen Interaction (PCI) Survey, the electronic survey component of the National Police Research Platform, designed to measure the quality of police–citizen encounters at the local level. Methods Three studies tested the feasibility, validity, and sample representativeness of the PCI Survey. A random...

For decades researchers have noted that certain segments of our communities have negative views of the police. Police leaders have questioned how they might changes these longstanding attitudes. Data from the National Police Research Platform (NPRP) measures the views of the community towards their police from those who have recent contacts with th...

Objectives To examine whether group capacity for problem solving and partnership building could be enhanced at police–community meetings by providing the results from community surveys and training for group facilitators. Methods A randomized control trial was conducted in 51 police beats in Chicago’s community policing program, CAPS. Unlike contr...

What happens during police-citizen encounters can have a sizable impact on police legitimacy, citizen cooperation, law suits, and many other outcomes. The Police-Community Interaction Survey (PCIS) of the National Police Research Platform allows us to measure the quality of police-citizen encounters and explore the interactional dynamics that contr...

This paper will examine whether background characteristics, personality traits and communication styles can predict specific dimensions of procedural justice used by an officer during civilian encounters. Data come from both the National Police Research Platform’s longitudinal recruit sample and the Platform’s Police-Civilian Interaction Survey. Po...

This article studies comprehensive community initiatives to prevent violence, crime, and drug abuse. It focuses on the role of partnerships or coalitions as the main tool for imagining, executing, and maintaining these crime-prevention strategies. It studies the literature on coalitions that are mostly outside the public safety domain, and then rev...

As part of the National Police Research Platform, the Public Satisfaction Survey measures police performance during police-civilian encounters using web-based and automated telephone methods. The question is whether these electronic tools can produce valid information that is useful to practitioners and researchers. This presentation describes the...

This article describes an interdisciplinary center at the University of Illinois at Chicago focused on collaborative research on violence. Our center is unique in its emphasis on developing infrastructure and distinctive processes for overcoming obstacles to interdisciplinary research; the involvement of outside policy makers, advocates, and servic...

Conflict between the police and minorities is a consistent theme in inner city neighborhoods. Most studies focus on minorities’ attitudes toward the police and overlook police experiences and perceptions, thus neglecting a vital element in understanding this relationship. The objective of this study was to understand how police officers socially co...

Using a national probability sample of municipal police departments, this study provides the first systematic look at the prevalence, predictors, and content of municipal police websites in the United States. A content analysis revealed that police agencies with websites (42% of all police agencies nationwide in 2008) were more inclined to use webs...

The purpose of this study is to extend our understanding of attitudes toward the police by examining how race/ethnicity, social class, and neighborhood context interact to influence four different dimensions of attitudes: neighborhood, global, police services, and fear of the police. The results showed significant racial/ethnic variation in percept...

Introduction This author is a strong advocate of using sophisticated information technology and the latest research findings to guide decisionmaking in police organizations. Hence, this article begins with a brief acknowledgment of the potential benefits of hot spot policing in theory, followed by a serious critique. The thesis of this chapter is t...

This study focused on a series of hypotheses regarding residents’ attitudes toward the police: (1) residents’ attitudes toward the police are better represented by a two-dimensional model that differentiates global perceptions of the police from assessments of the police in the respondents’ neighborhood; (2) the structure of residents’ attitudes to...

Researchers have emphasized the importance of direct encounters with the police as a determinant of attitudes toward the police, yet cross-sectional studies allow for limited causal inference. This study includes the measurement of attitudes before and after encounters with the police among African American, Hispanic, and White residents of Chicago...

We analyzed recanting of substance use reports for lifetime use of alcohol, alcohol to get drunk, cigarettes, marijuana and cocaine in an 8-wave panel study designed to evaluate the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program in the State of Illinois. Although this phenomenon has been identified elsewhere, the current analysis of recanting is a unique...

Inter-organizational partnerships are widely praised as a vehicle for planning and implementing complex, comprehensive com-munity interventions. This article explores conceptual, design, and measurement issues relevant to the evaluation of coalitions, with par-ticular reference to anti-crime initiatives. A general theory of partner-ships is outline...

The Chicago Housing Authority's (CHA) notorious high-rise developments are among the most dangerous public housing in America. In the early 1990s, the CHA launched an ambitious attack on crime, a comprehensive and collaborative crime prevention program known as the Anti-Drug Initiative (ADI). From 1994 to 1996 we tracked conditions in three of the...

A randomized longitudinal field experiment was conducted to estimate the short- and long-term effects of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program (D.A.R.E.) on students' attitudes, beliefs, social skills, and drug use behaviors. Students from urban, suburban, and rural schools (N = 1,798) were followed for more than six years, with surveys admin...

This study explores the relationships between social, demographic, and behavioral characteristics and self-reported carrying of a weapon to school among middle school students. The results provide a statistical profile of youth most likely to bring weapons to school and help to identify characteristics that are only spuriously related to this behav...

An evaluation was conducted to estimate the effects of a well-funded community policing demonstration program in Joliet, Illinois. Using a nonequivalent pretest-posttest control group design, changes in officers' perceptions and behaviors were examined over a 2-year period, during which time they were exposed to new training programs, organizationa...

Community policing is the latest reform in law enforcement and is quite popular among politicians, citizens, and police managers. It evolved, in part, from a growing dissatisfaction with traditional police practices and a recognition of their shortcomings. The concept of community policing is rather nebulous, and in the field, it assumes many forms...

Project DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is the most prevalent school-based drug-use prevention program in the United States, but there is little evidence of its effectiveness. Results from a longitudinal evaluation of the program in 36 schools in Illinois provide only limited support for DARE's impact on student's drug use immediately follow...

Although aggressive enforcement programs have been the backbone of our national drug control policy, school-based drug education has been widely praised as the most promising strategy for achieving long-term reductions in the demand for drugs and alcohol. Employing specially trained police officers in the classroom, Project DARE has become America'...

[the authors] address both the theoretical and policy implications of the connections among drugs, crime, and community disorder. The book advances an insightful community-level perspective on differential patterns of drug use, citizen reaction to drugs, and governmental intervention. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Research has been limited on the effects of mass media in increasing awareness of and participation in crime prevention programs. Mass media campaigns have been criticized as ineffective because they are neither informative nor motivating. Crime Stoppers is a program that appears responsive to these criticisms. The program involves dramatic reenact...

Since the early 1960s, the United States has been a country besieged by crime at levels never before observed in the Western world. Between 1960 and 1976 the rate of property crime in urban areas more than doubled and the rate of violent crime more than tripled (Jacob & Lineberry, 1982). Although crime rates have stabilized and even dropped slightl...

“Crime Stoppers” has emerged as one of the most rapidly expanding and highly visible crime control strategies in the Western world, yet research on this program is extremely limited. This article reports some of the major findings of a national evaluation funded by the National Institute of Justice. The evaluation adopted a variety of strategies an...

Most social control theorists do not consider definitions of delinquency problematic. Beginning with the assumption that crime is a unitary concept, researchers have combined a variety of non-normative items to create additive delinquency scales. Rarely is consideration given to whether the causes of crime differ for distinct types of criminal acti...

: This article explores the effects of citizen participation in policy through a case study of the implementation of a community crime-prevention program in Chicago. Although the program was successful in soliciting and maintaining citizen involvement, it produced little in the way of hoped-for crime-prevention outcomes. However, in at least one ca...

In the absence of effective formal means for controlling crime in the Western world, community crime prevention has emerged as a major alternative and supplement to the criminal justice system. This article attempts to review what is known currently about the nature, extent, and effectiveness of community-based efforts to prevent residential crime....

Beginning with the premise that police-victim interactions shortly after victimization mediate the psychological impact of criminal victimization, the Detroit Victims Experiment was designed to test the notions that (a) new police officers could be sensitized to the psychological needs of victims, and (b) this sensitivity would ameliorate the sever...

This article takes a critical look at the theory and research behind the highly touted community crime prevention strategy known as Neighborhood Watch. While correlational studies of neighborhoods and citizen participation are numerous, there is a paucity of rigorous experimental evaluations that test the proposed “Implant Hypothesis,” that is, tha...

Describes a program to release neighborhood level crime information to citizens within the context of community crime prevention programming. The following effects were anticipated based on a review of the literature: (1) Levels of fear of crime should increase, but not sizably; (2) levels of concern for crime as a local problem should increase sig...

Examined the relationship between verbal–social influence and bystander intervention in a crime situation with 2 experiments. Exp I was conducted in a supermarket where the S witnessed a shoplifting committed by a female undergraduate while waiting in the checkout line. A 35-yr-old female confederate either encouraged reporting, discouraged reporti...

This paper argues for more frequent use of surveys and interviews to advance the criminology of place, and to improve current evaluations of place-specific crime prevention interventions by police, community groups, and others. Interview methodologies can produce reliable information about critical social processes and perceptions—data that are not...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Loyola University of Chicago, 1980. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213). Photocopy.

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