Search

Skip to main content Accessibility help

Home
Search

Only show content I have access to (0)

Chapters (1)

Last 3 years (1)

From year:

To year:

Apply

Sociology (1)

political concerns

Cambridge University Press (1)

View selected items
Save to my bookmarks
Export citations
Download PDF (zip)
Save to Kindle
Save to Dropbox
Save to Google Drive
Save content to
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to .

To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Please be advised that item(s) you selected are not available.
You are about to save
Your Kindle email address

Please provide your Kindle email.

@free.kindle.com @kindle.com (service fees apply)

By using this service, you agree that you will only keep content for personal use, and will not openly distribute them via Dropbox, Google Drive or other file sharing services

1 results

12 - Towards Implementing Evidence-Based Policing
from Part IV - Challenges to the Implementation of Evidence-Based Policing
- By Laura Jaitman
Edited by David Weisburd, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and George Mason University, Virginia, Tal Jonathan-Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gali Perry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Badi Hasisi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Book:

The Future of Evidence-Based Policing

Published online:

01 June 2023

Print publication:

15 June 2023, pp 235-251
- Chapter
- - Get access
    
    Check if you have access via personal or institutional login
    
    Log in Register
- Export citation
Summary

Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region on earth. However, implementation of evidence-based policing (EBP) lags due to institutional, cultural, political, and skills barriers. This chapter analyzes the context in which EBP is implemented and the challenges encountered and identifies actions to further promote EBP in the region. Challenges to adopt EBP include those present in advanced countries such as the need to institutionalize EBP and to build academic-practitioner partnerships, and also some challenges more prominent in the region including lack of reliable data, instability of political institutions and lack of trust in the police