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Roger B. Parks

Roger B. Parks

Professor Emeritus


Education
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1979
M.A., Indiana University, 1972
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964

Professional Experience
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 1982-2006

Professional 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

Current Projects
Evaluator, Transformation Project, Police Service of Trinidad and Tobago, 2006-present

Selected 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), pp. 37-65
  • Roger B. Parks and Ronald J. Oakerson, “Regionalism, Localism, and Metropolitan Governance: Suggestions from the Research Program on Local Public Economies”, State and Local Government Review, Vol. 32, No. 3, Fall 2000, 169-79
  • Michael D. Reisig and Roger B. Parks. “Experience, Quality of Life, and Neighborhood Context: A Hierarchical Analysis of Satisfaction with the Police,” Justice Quarterly 17 (3), September 2000, 607-29
  • Stephen D. Mastrofski, Jeffrey B. Snipes, Roger B. Parks, and Christopher D. Maxwell, “The Helping Hand of the Law: Police Control of Citizens on Request”, Criminology, 38:2, May 2000, 307-42
  • Roger B. Parks, Stephen D. Mastrofski, Christina DeJong, and M. Kevin Gray. “How Officers Spend Their Time With The Community”. Justice Quarterly 16, September 1999, 483-518