Understanding and Preventing Community Violence

James F. Albrecht is a Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Homeland Security at Pace University in New York City. Jimmy received a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship in 1998 and worked as a Professor at the National Police College of Finland.  He is also the recipient of a 2013 Embassy Policy Specialist Fellowship (USDOS/IREX) and was tasked with conducting research and making recommendations to improve law enforcement effectiveness and legitimacy in Ukraine.  Police Chief Albrecht served in the European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) in Kosovo (former Yugoslavia) as the Head of the EULEX Police Executive Department, in charge of criminal investigations and coordinating international law enforcement cooperation and intelligence analysis from 2008 through 2010.  He had previously served in the United Nations Mission in Kosovo Police from 2007 to 2008. Jimmy is also a 23-year veteran of the NYPD who retired as the Commanding Officer of NYPD Transit Bureau District 20, tasked with the prevention of crime and terrorism in the subway and commuter transit system in New York City. He was a first responder and incident command staff manager at the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and developed the counter-terrorism strategic plan for the subway system in the borough of Queens, New York City.Dr. Garth den Heyer is a Professor with the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University in Phoenix. He served with the New Zealand Police for 38 years, retiring as an Inspector and Manager: National Security. He also spent more than 20 months as a strategic advisor to the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands. His main research interests are policing, militarization, counterterrorism, service delivery efficacy, policy development, strategic thinking, and organizational reform.

• Chapter 1: Law Enforcement Response to Internet Crimes against Children.- Chapter 2: Violent Crime among Children and Juveniles in Oslo in 2020:  Policing Challenges, Responses and Experiences.- Chapter 3: Police Training and Use of Force: Methods to Reduce Violent Encounters.- Chapter 4: Control behaviours during conflict resolution police–citizen encounters in South Australia and New Zealand.- Chapter 5: Technology in Policing.- Chapter 6: Increasing Gun and Community Violence in the United States: Causes and Analyses.- Chapter 7: The Impact of Community Conflict-Related Violence on Police Officer Mental Health and Wellbeing.- Chapter 8: Community violence, vigilantism and mob justice in South Africa.- Chapter 9: Canada and the USA – Community Violence and the Police Use of Deadly Force in Bordering Nations.- Chapter 10: Commodification of Kidnapping and School Insecurity in Nigeria: Appraisals and National Challenge.- Chapter 11: American Policing Strategies to Prevent Community Violence.- Chapter 12: Communal Complexity Conflict and Security in Gambia.- Chapter 13: Crime prevention and complementary law enforcement in Hungary.- Chapter 14: New Zealand’s Dirty Secret: Family Violence.- Chapter 15: Afterword and Final Thoughts.