Electronic Community-Oriented Policing - Theories, Contemporary Efforts, and Future Directions

Hu and Lovrich introduce the "electronic community-oriented policing" (E-COP), concept to explore how social media can impact police strategies on improving police-public relationships. This timely refinement to traditional community-oriented policing strategies is of the utmost importance as we move further into the twentieth century.

List of contents

Part I: Police, Media, and New Media

Chapter 1: Media, the Criminal Justice System, and the Police

Chapter 2: New Media and Police

Part II: Conceptualization of Electronic Community-Oriented Policing: Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 3: Theories on Individual, Social, Mass Communication, and Organizational Behavior

Chapter 4: Community-Oriented Policing and the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

Chapter 5: Electronic Community-Oriented Policing: Core Concepts and Strategies

Part III: Contemporary Electronic Community-Oriented Policing Efforts

Chapter 6: What Do the Police Do on Social Media?

Chapter 7: Public Preferences Regarding Police Use of Social Media

Chapter 8: Outliers: Facebook Posts That Received Extraordinary Public Attention

Chapter 9: Case Study: Small Police Agency Use of Facebook

Part IV: Future Directions

Chapter 10: Improving Electronic Community-Oriented Policing

Chapter 11: Implementing and Evaluating Electronic Community-Oriented Policing

Conclusion and Future Research: Computer Science, Police Research, and Social Media

About the author

Xiaochen Hu is assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Fayetteville State University.

Nicholas P. Lovrich is Regents professor emeritus and Claudius O. and Mary W. Johnson distinguished professor of political science at Washington State University.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaochen Hu, Xiaochen Lovrich Hu, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Lovrich Nicholas P.
• Assisted by: Gary Cordner (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781793607843
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-784-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Policing Perspectives and Challenges in the Twenty-First Century; Policing Perspectives and Chal
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Community Policing;Mixed Methods;Police;Social Media