This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. “Community-oriented policing” is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to enhance trust and legitimacy of police by the community (and vice versa), and focus on engaging the community crime prevention and detection efforts for sustainable, long-term crime reduction. The contributions to this volume emphasize how technological innovations can advance community-oriented policing goals, such as: -Strengthening community policing principles through effective and efficient tools, procedures and approaches - Accelerating communication between citizens and police forces - Early identification, timely intervention, as well as better crime reporting, identification of risks, unreported and undiscovered crime through the community Contributions to this volume were developed out of the Next Generation Community Policing (NGCP) International Conference was co-organized by nine contributing research and development projects, funded by the Horizon 2020 SECURITY Program of the European Commission. It will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, as well as related fields such as sociology, public health, security, IT and public policy. This book is open access under a CC BY license.

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Serious Games: An Attractive Approach to Improve Awareness
• 2. Can Technology Build Trust? Community-Oriented Policing and ICT in Afghanistan
• 3. Community Outreach Using Incident Records and Visual Analytics
• 4. Robust End-User-Driven Social Media Monitoring for Law Enforcement and Emergency Monitoring
• 5. Architecting Next Generation Community Policing Solutions
• 6. Developing and Assessing Next Generation Community Policing Social Networks with THOR Methodology
• 7. Next Generation of CP: The Unity IT Toolkit
• 8. A Descriptive, Practical, Hybrid Argumentation Model to Assist with the Formulation of Defensible Assessments in Uncertain Sense-Making Environments
• 9. Situating Fear of Crime: The Prospects for Criminological Research to Use Smartphone Applications to Gather Experience Sampling Data
• 10. Analytic Provenance as Constructs of Behavioural Markers for Externalizing Thinking Processes in Criminal Intelligence Analysis
• 11. Analysis of Suspended Terrorism-Related Content on Social Media
• 12. UAVs and Their Use in Servicing the Community
• Erratum to: Architecting Next Generation Community Policing Solutions