PETER R. LEE‚ MPH * SHERER W. ROYCE‚ MPH Assets-Oriented Community Assessment S Y N 0 P S I S Dr. Sharpe‚ Ms. Greaney‚ and Ms. Royce are with the Prevention Research Center at the University of South Carolina School of Public Health. Dr. Sharpe is Research Associate Determining how to promote community health requires that community health workers first assess where the community stands. The authors maintain that Healthy Communities initiatives are better served by assetsoriented assessment
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND Community policing is a policing strategy and philosophy based on the notion that community interaction and support can help control crime and reduce fear‚ with community members helping to identify suspects‚ detain offenders‚ bring problems to the attention of police‚ or otherwise target the social problems which give rise to a crime problem in the first place. Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies that support the
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Policing in the United States has taken on many different forms and facets in the past 50 years. Although‚ various modes & models of policing styles continue to be introduced‚ two main aspects of law enforcement have remained constant‚ (traditional policing & community oriented- policing). There are so many different facets‚ trends‚ and new emerging technologies in the wide world of law enforcement. First‚ we will outline a brief history of the origins and evolvement of policing. Special attention
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The dilemma affiliated with community notification laws is the delicate balancing of the public’s right to information with the successful reintegration of offenders to the community (Zevitz & Farkas 1). One aspect of sex offender’s notification tends to get overlooked; and that has ties with the 8th amendment‚ in regards to the constitutional right to abstain from cruel and unusual punishment. This poses serious ethical issues with notification laws‚ and the retaliation some sex offenders receive
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Negative aspects of Community Policing People have been wary of police through the years .Through those years’ certain times police officer neglect to do his or her duty.Chance are they choose to look ovr the rules and regulation.In turn causing an u roar in thire community or town.Making people turn on the good people who have held up the law.Community policing must be held up by people who will hold up the law by all means.The effects of the situation have come to cause a neagiv effect that has
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Community Policing and Problem Solving Policing John K. Forrest II CJS/210 August 15‚ 2010 Travis Coldwell Community Policing and Problem Solving Policing When police departments and crime rates of the past are examined there are some apologist who believe that America would be in a better law enforcement situation provide the policies of the past we put back into use. With the public becoming more technologically advanced and criminal’s awareness of prosecution avoidance‚ community
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Policing‚ in all its forms‚ is a matter of trust and honesty between the police departments and those they are suppose to protect. My sources deal with two cities and their policing ways‚ New York City and Johnstown‚ and how their efforts to right the wrongs of their departments’ sordid and violent pasts will lead to hopefully productive and brighter futures for them and their citizens. Both have had mixed success in these new paths‚ but hope to continue forward in a positive matter. In New York
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Community policing is a tool that allows police forces to be in close contact with the community. The purpose for this is to control and reduce crime in an area and to also establish a close relationship between the law and the common person. However due to the large amount of people who are victims of profiling each year‚ tensions are rapidly growing between the police officers and the communities that they serve. Even though the exact number of people who experience this is unknown‚ it is a big
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time periods. The two stories both have their pros and cons of the society that is being portrayed in the text. The pros of the societies in the stories are found more in “The Voter” than in “Tribal Scars”. This mainly has to do with the fact that the society in Achebe’s story was based in a more recent time which allowed for the society to be more far and democratic and this would be the most noticeable pro throughout the stories. Another pro for “The Voter” would be that almost all of the
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Standardised Testing Name: Institution: Abstract This paper explores two published books that touched on pros and cons of standardized testing in schools. Popham‚ (2001) and Sacks‚ (1999) suggest that through pros a student will have to pass certain tests to determine that he or she has acquired proficiency in various fields of study. According to the two authors‚ in cons the students who have mastery of the content‚ don’t show in the test; it mostly promotes teachers to teach tests and evaluate
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