Community Policing

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Routledge, 2013 M01 11 - 272 pages

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.
 

Contents

1 Globalizing communityoriented policing
1
Part One Community Policing Models and Critiques
21
Part Two Community Policing in Transitional and Failed Societies
133
Bibliography
236
Author index
251
Subject index
254
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Mike Brogden, Preeti Nijhar

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