Access to full-text SAGE journal articles that have been carefully selected to support and expand on the concepts presented in each chapter. Journal articles can act as an ideal resource to help support your assignments and studies.

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Article 1: Wells, W., & Wu, L. (July 2011). Proactive Policing Effects on Repeat and Near-Repeat Shootings in Houston. Police Quarterly 14(3), 298-319.

Questions that apply to this article:

1. Why is this an example of proactive policing?
2. What is the basic premise or assumption behind hot spot policing?
3. Why did this study find that their proactive strategy was not effective? Think about the problem it attempted to address and the causes of that problem.

Article 2: Huey, L. (April 2010). ‘I’ve Seen This on CSI’: Criminal Investigators’ Perceptions About the Management of Public Expectations in the Field. Crime, Media, Culture 6(1), 49-68.

Questions that apply to this article:

1. What is the “CSI effect”?
2. Why is it important to study the impact of the “CSI effect” on detective work?
3. What were the findings of this study?