The Police Foundation has a long history of research on policing, and publishes the results of its research as an information service.

Since its inception in 1970, the foundation has stressed the importance of helping to create a new body of knowledge about policing. The quality and quantity of its research reports have helped make the Police Foundation a catalyst for change in American policing.

For a complete listing of titles in print and information on how to order them, go to Publications List.

In addition, the foundation has supported scholarly research and writing that has been published by commercial and university presses. These volumes are listed on the Publication List as Books Published by Other Presses. To order any of these titles, please contact the publisher or a bookseller.

Our Ideas in American Policing series presents commentary and insight from leading criminologists on issues of interest to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. The papers published in this series are from the foundation’s lecture series of the same name. Twice each year at its Washington, DC headquarters, the foundation hosts a lecture by a distinguished criminal justice scholar, such as David Bayley, Stephen Mastrofski, Lawrence Sherman, and Jerome Skolnick.

We offer an online Electronic Library, which includes:

• Recent research reports on Compstat
• Police Foundation Reports, research-in-briefs of selected foundation projects
• Research Briefs, two-page summaries of selected foundation studies
• All monographs in the Ideas in American Policing series.
• Crime Mapping News, a newsletter for GIS, crime mapping, and policing
• Crime Mapping & Problem Analysis technical assistance and training documents
• Community policing training and technical assistance monographs
• Drugs and Crime in America: Police Chiefs Speak Out, a joint project of the Police Foundation and Drug Strategies, presents the results of a national survey of police chiefs about their experience with drug abuse and drug crime
• Racial Profiling: The State of the Law, a summary of legal developments in cities and states around the U.S.

Police Foundation publications are used worldwide in police training programs and in criminal justice, law, and public policy programs at colleges and universities. See Publication Review Policy for more information.

The work of the foundation has been and continues to be incorporated into the emerging criminal justice literature. Permission to quote and reproduce foundation studies is readily granted. Please see Copyright Information for instructions on securing permissions.

By disseminating as widely as possible the publications that result from its work, the foundation seeks to ensure that the knowledge it has gained reaches the broader criminal justice community, including law enforcement practitioners, policy makers, and scholars.

For more information, please contact Mary Malina, Communications Director, at (202) 833-1460, or e-mail: mmalina@policefoundation.org.