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Public Affairs Faculty

Roger B. Parks
Emeritus Professor

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1979

Roger Parks' research foci in the last ten years have been (1) whether and, if so, how the adoption of community policing makes a difference in the work done by police officers at the street level, (2) if and how this adoption affects police services received by residents of diverse urban neighborhoods, and (3) community policing adoption’s effects in police organization structure and resource allocation. Parks served as a co-principal investigator for the National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) 1993-99 Project on Policing Neighborhoods, a large-scale observation study of police activities in community policing environments, and from 1998-2002 as a consultant to NIJ and the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services on an 1,800+ department investigation of community policing implementation. Recent publications from these projects appear in Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Police Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency, Justice Research and Policy, and in reports published by the National Institute of Justice.

Parks also studies the organization and governance structures of metropolitan areas and their effects on effectiveness, efficiency, equity, and responsiveness of public service delivery. Findings from this research appear in State and Local Government Review, Urban Affairs Review, Publius, and The American Review of Public Administration.

Recent Publications

Michael D. Reisig and Roger B. Parks (2004). “Can Community Policing Help the Truly Disadvantaged?”, Crime & Delinquency, Vol. 50, No. 2 (April), pp. 139-167.

Michael D. Reisig and Roger B. Parks (2004). “The Link Between Community Policing and Quality of Life” in Wesley G. Skogan (ed.), Community Policing: Can It Work? Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, pp. 207-227.

Michael D. Reisig and Roger B. Parks (2003). “Neighborhood Context, Police Behavior, and Satisfaction with Police,” Justice Research & Policy, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring)s, pp. 37-65.

Christina DeJong, Stephen D. Mastrofski, and Roger B. Parks (2001). “Patrol Officers and Problem Solving: An Application of Expectancy Theory,” Justice Quarterly (March), pp. 31-61.

Roger B. Parks and Ronald J. Oakerson (2000).“Regionalism, Localism, and Metropolitan Governance: Suggestions from the Research Program on Local Public Economies,” State and Local Government Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Fall), pp. 169-79.

Michael D. Reisig and Roger B. Parks (2000). “Experience, Quality of Life, and Neighborhood Context: A Hierarchical Analysis of Satisfaction with the Police,” Justice Quarterly 17 (September), pp. 607-629.

Stephen D. Mastrofski, Jeffrey B. Snipes, Roger B. Parks, and Christopher D. Maxwell (2000).“The Helping Hand of the Law: Police Control of Citizens on Request,” Criminology, 38:2 (May), pp. 307-342.

Roger B. Parks, Stephen D. Mastrofski, Christina DeJong, and M. Kevin Gray (1999). “How Officers Spend Their Time With The Community,” Justice Quarterly 16 (September).

Elinor Ostrom and Roger B. Parks (1999). “Neither Gargantua Nor the Land of Lilliputs: Conjectures on Mixed Systems of Metropolitan Organization,” in Michael McGinnis (ed.), Polycentricity and Local Public Economies. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.