- Email:
- parks@iu.edu
- Areas of Interest:
- Organization and governance structures of metropolitan areas and their effects on effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and responsiveness of public service delivery
- Community policing
- Police reform
Education
- Ph.D., Indiana University, 1979
- M.A., Indiana University, 1972
- S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964
Biography
Roger B. Parks is Emeritus Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. He has studied police organization and performance for more than forty years. Recently (2006-2010) Parks served as evaluator for the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service's Model Stations Initiative. Publications from the evaluation include Tammy Rhinehart Kochel, Roger B. Parks, and Stephen D. Mastrofski, "Examining Police Effectiveness as a Precursor to Legitimacy and Cooperation with Police". Justice Quarterly 2012 and David B. Wilson, Roger B. Parks, and Stephen D. Mastrofski, "The Impact of Police Reform on Communities of Trinidad and Tobago," Journal of Experimental Criminology 2011.
Selected Works
- "Can community policing help the truly disadvantaged?" (with M. D. Resig), Crime & Delinquency, 50(2): 139-167 (2004)
- "The Link Between Community Policing and Quality of Life," (with M. D. Reisig) Community Policing: Can It Work? (W. G. Skogan (Ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing (2004)
- "Neighborhood context, police behavior, and satisfaction with police," (with M. D. Reisig), Justice Research & Policy, 5(1): 37-65 (2003)
- "Regionalism, localism, and metropolitan governance: Suggestions from the research program on local public economies," (with R. J. Oakerson), State and Local Government Review, 32(3): 169-79 (2000)
- "Experience, quality of life, and neighborhood context: A hierarchical analysis of satisfaction with the police," (with M. D. Reisig), Justice Quarterly, 17(3): 607-29 (2000)
- "The helping hand of the law: Police control of citizens on request," (with S. D. Mastrofski, C. D. Maxwell, and J. B. Snipes), Criminology, 38(2): 307-42 (2000)
- "How officers spend their time with the community," (with C. DeJong, M. K. Gray, and S. D. Mastrofski), Justice Quarterly, 16: 483-518 (1999)