Community Policing: National and international models and approaches - Hardcover

Brogden, Mike; Nijhar, Preeti

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1843920069 ISBN 13: 9781843920069

Publisher: Willan, 2005

Synopsis

Community policing has been a buzzword in Anglo-American policing for the last two decades, somewhat vague in its definition but generally considered to be a good thing. In the UK the notion of community policing conveys a consensual policing style, offering an alternative to past public order and crimefighting styles. In the US community policing represents the dominant ideology of policing as reflected in a myriad of urban schemes and funding practices, the new orthodoxy in North American policing policy-making, strategies and tactic. But it has also become a massive export to non-western societies where it has been adopted in many countries, in the face of scant evidence of its appropriateness in very different contexts and surroundings.

• critical analysis of concept of community policing worldwide
• assesses evidence for its effectiveness, especially in the USA and UK
• highlights often inappropriate export of community policing models to failed and transitional societies.

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Review

'This is an enlightening and stimulating book which is exciting considerable interest and will be influential for some time to come.' - Tom Williamson (from a review in British Society of Criminology Newsletter, no. 58, September 2005)

Synopsis

Community policing is widely regarded as central to the future of policing generally. Yet it is far from a universal panacea or answer to the problem of crime and disorder. Community policing works best where it is least needed - in homogeneous affluent societies. It works worst in heterogeneous deprived social contexts where such policing may be most desirable. This book seeks to test these truisms, and to explore the concept of community policing across a range of international contexts. It examines the evidence of the development of community-oriented policing in nation states as diverse as South Africa, Japan and the countries of the former Eastern bloc as well as in western societies. "Community Policing: International Concepts and Practice" argues that community-oriented policing may often be a western missionary ideal implanted in societies in transition, without due regard for local experiences of policing and crime control. In response, the authors of this provocative book argue the case for a modified view of community-oriented policing within tiered policing structures as the most adaptable to diverse societies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Willan
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1843920069
• ISBN 13: 9781843920069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272