Fifteen papers by experts in the fields of community policing and police management focus on the requirements of organizational change to community policing in

The authors provide stepping stones for rural and small-town agencies to make the organizational changes needed for community policing to take hold. The book in

While most researchers see the urban setting as being the only laboratory for studying crime problems throughout the United States, Crime and Policing in Rural

The police are perhaps the most visible representation of government. They are charged with what has been characterized as an "impossible" mandate -- control an

Policing reveals much about rural society. It refers to the way that the police, the public and other agencies regulate themselves and each other according to t