Term of Award
Fall 2020
Degree Name
Master of Science, Criminal Justice and Criminology
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Committee Chair
Chad Posick
Committee Member 1
Amanda Graham
Committee Member 2
Jonathan Grubb
Abstract
The Residence Hall Partnership Program (R.H.P.P.) is the first major department wide community policing effort by the Georgia Southern police department. This study is an evaluation of that program’s first year of implementation. The evaluation process consists of a series of two mostly quantitative surveys of the residence hall students and officers of the Georgia Southern police department. The first survey was distributed at the beginning of the program during the Fall 2019 semester, the follow-up survey at the end of the Spring 2020 semester. The theories being examined are that community policing programs will improve student’s perceptions of police, reduce student’s fear of crime, improve officer’s perceptions of students, and improve officer job satisfaction. The results were mixed concerning student’s perceptions of police, and officer job satisfaction. There were positive results for this program improving officer perceptions of students and reducing student’s fear of crime.
OCLC Number
1226491180
Catalog Permalink
https://galileo-georgiasouthern.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01GALI_GASOUTH/1r4bu70/alma9916405549502950
Recommended Citation
Bowen, Charles P., "An Evaluation Of Georgia Southern University Public Safety Department's Community Policing Program: A Residence Hall Partnership Program" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2169.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/2169
Research Data and Supplementary Material
Yes
Included in
Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons