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Police-Community Relations and Collaborative Problem Solving

Tuesday, September 11

6:30 pm

Location: Shorewood Village Center

Dr. Kimberly D. Hassell will explore police-community relations as well as collaborative problem solving, and how these practices can be applied to modern policing strategies.  Poor police-community relations is a major social issue with serious repercussions.  Community-based collaborative problem solving – police working collaboratively with residents, local business owners, and stakeholders to address the underlying proximate causes of community-based problems – is fundamental to police effectiveness and crime control.  Social cohesion and collective efficacy, the cornerstones of community-based collaborative problem solving and community crime control, require strong police-community relations.  Communities where police-resident relations are strained are more vulnerable to disorder, crime, and violent victimization.

ABOUT DR. KIMBERLY D. HASSELL

Dr. Kimberly D. Hassell is an associate professor in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. Dr. Hassell teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses including Data-Driven Policing Strategies and Police Intelligence; Police and the Multicultural Community; Women and Policing; Race, Crime and Criminal Justice; Criminal Court Systems; Police Process; and Introduction to Criminal Justice. Her research interests include police organizational behavior, police decision-making, police-community relations, and women in policing.

Dr. Hassell has participated in several police behavior studies focusing on issues such as organizational culture, police-community relations, complaints of police misconduct, workplace climate, promotional issues, and protest policing, among others. She has published articles in professional journals including Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, Police Quarterly, and Journal of Criminal Justice.

She currently serves on the editorial advisory board of Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management and Police Quarterly.

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