Modern Policing and the Control of Illegal Drugs: Testing New Strategies in Oakland, California, and Birmingham, Alabama, 1987-1989

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Principal Investigator(s): Uchida, Craig D.; Forst, Brian; Annan, Sampson O.

Summary: These data were collected in Oakland, California, and Birmingham, Alabama, to examine the effectiveness of alternative drug enforcement strategies. A further objective was to compare the relative effectiveness of strategies drawn from professional- versus community-oriented models of policing. The professional model emphasizes police responsibility for crime control, whereas the community model stresses the importance of a police-citizen partnership in crime control. At each site, experim... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09962.v1

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