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593 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2004)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0593 and id is 1 raw text is: Preface By WESLEY G. SKOGAN 6 This edition of the Annals is devoted to research on the policies and practices of American police departments. Modern police research began in the 1950s, pioneered in the United States by the American Bar Foundation's exploration of how the criminal justice system actually worked. They discovered discretion (although the practitioners always knew it was there), and research on the system forever aban- doned its blind emphasis on formal description and legal exegesis. The report of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society (1967), moved this work closer to center stage among social scientists and policy makers alike. The commission's resources made possible large-scale field studies and sophisticated analyses of archival data that high- lighted inequalities in crime and the outcomes of the criminal justice process, two topics that inspired more empirical research. Later, the W1 esley G. Skogan has been a faculty member at North- westenz University since 1971 and holds joint appoint- ments with the political science department and the Institute for Policy Research. His research focuses on the interface between the public and the legal system. Much o f this research has examined public encounters with institutions o f justice, in the form of crime prevention projects and community-oriented policing. His most recent books on policing are On the Beat: Police and Community Problem Solving (Westview, 1999) and Community Policing. Chicago Style (Oxford University Press, 1997). They are both empirical studies of Chi- cago' community policing initiative. His 1990 book Dis- order and Decline examined public involvement in these programs, their efficacy, and the issues involved in police-citizen cooperation in order maintenance. This book won a prize from the American Sociological Associ- ation. He is also the author of two lengthy reports in the Home Office Research Series examining citizen contact and satisfaction with polic ing in Britain. Other articIes on police-citizen issues include The Impact of Comu- nity Policing on Neighborhood Residents: A Cross-Site Analysis in Rosenbaum's The Challenge of Community Policing. He chaired the National Research Councils Committee to Reriewv Research on Police Policies and Practices. DOI: 10.1177/0002716204264097 ANNALS, AAPSS, 593, May 2004

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