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Assignment:

Literature Review

Complete the Criminal Justice Research Section: Literature Review on the topic below based on the bold topic bullet points, experience, knowledge, or sources. Explain in as much detail as possible.

• State a Literature Review
• Literature Review: This section lays out the current debates and findings as articulated in the academic literature pertaining to your topic. This part of the paper is designed to introduce the reader to the state of affairs of the dominant concepts in your field, methodologies, and theories. All you will do here is develop these categories for presentation and provide an academic justification for your research question.
• Please provide a least 4-6 or more sources on the topic.

Topic:

• The Impact of Community Policing on Reducing Youth Crime Rates

Topic bullet points:

• The purpose of this study is to investigate an essential component of this field, namely the evaluation of the influence that community policing has on the reduction of juvenile delinquency.
• The purpose of this study is to provide answers to questions such as whether or not a higher level of community policing is associated with lower rates of juvenile delinquency. In order to engage young people and prevent them from engaging in delinquent behaviors, which aspects of community policing are the most effective?
• What impacts do the socio-demographic characteristics of a community have on the efficiency of the community policing strategies that are implemented?
• It is anticipated that the findings will provide valuable insights for policymakers, law enforcement agencies, and community leaders, which may potentially guide the development of strategies that are more effective in combating acts of youth criminality.
• The purpose of this research proposal is to shed light on the complexities of crime prevention in the context of youth delinquency.

Sources currently using:

• Hirschi, T. (1969). Causes of delinquency. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Kennedy, D. (2000). "The impact of community policing on crime: A review of the research." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 37(3), 369-388.
• Koper, C. (1997). "Community policing and crime prevention: An assessment." In L. W. Sherman, D. Weisburd, & J. E. Eck (Eds.), Preventing crime: What works, what doesn't, what's promising (pp. 93-148). National Institute of Justice.
• Loeber, R., & Farrington, D. P. (2003). Juvenile delinquency: From adolescence to young adulthood (2nd ed.). Sage.
• Lum, C. (2004). "Community policing and the problem of crime in urban neighborhoods." In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime and justice: A review of research (Vol. 27, pp. 393-434). University of Chicago Press.
• Sampson, R. J., Raudenbush, S. W., & Earls, F. (1997). Neighborhoods and multilevel models of crime: A new approach." American Sociological Review, 62(5), 773-797.