Books in the Innovations in Policing series

This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New York City.

This book explores the reasons behind the United Nations Police's chronic performance troubles and explains how the very fabric of the organization contributes to its ineffectiveness. This timely book focuses on the previously unstudied phenomenon of complex acculturation, i.e., adjusting to multiple different cultures simultaneously.