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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454784403321

Autore

Brogden Michael

Titolo

Community policing : national and international models and approaches / / Mike Brogden and Preeti Nijhar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cullompton, Devon, U.K. ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Willan Pub., , 2005

ISBN

1-134-00910-0

1-283-96651-4

1-282-07739-2

1-134-00903-8

9786612077395

1-84392-579-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NijharPreeti

Disciplina

363.2

Soggetti

Community policing

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Community Policing; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Globalizing community-oriented policing; Introduction; Exporting policing; The globalization of COP; Why community policing?; Preliminary doubts about COP; Outline of the text; Part One Community Policing - Models and Critiques; 2 Community-oriented policing - the Anglo-American model; Introduction; Community policing - orthodox origins; A Peelite history; Recent origins; The failure of traditional policing - a conventional view; The research evidence; Police discretion and community policing

Problem-oriented policingCorporate managerialism and the new policing; The key elements of community policing; Variations in community policing; Crime prevention and community policing; Overview; 3 Anglo-American community-oriented policing: ten myths; Introduction; The ten myths of community policing; The myth of the community; The myth of enhanced local accountability; The myth of professional use of enhanced discretion in problem-solving; The myth of the universal relevance of community policing; The myths of police



rhetoric - the legitimation function of local crime surveys

The myths of a Peelite history, of crime control and of the technological mistakeThe myth of public support for COP; The myth of linking with informal networks of control; The myth of organizational change in COP; The myth of the Anglo-American model - the failure to recognize alternatives; Overview; 4 Community policing on the Pacific Rim; Introduction; Community policing in Japan; An orthodox history; The centrality of the koban as a community policing structure; A revisionist view of the koban; Community policing in Singapore; Community policing in China: mobilizing the masses

Integration of civil and state structuresSocial change - the rejection of community policing; Overview; 5 Aspects of community policing in the European Union; Introduction; Centralized policing systems - adaptation of the Napoleonic inheritance; France - proximity policing and community safety contracts; Proximity policing; Proximity policing and the local security contract; Belgium - policing facing two masters, central state and locality; Italy and Spain; Decentralized systems: the example of the Netherlands; National police systems and community policing - the Scandinavian countries

OverviewPart Two Community Policing in Transitional and Failed Societies; 6 South Africa - the failure of community policing; Introduction; The imperative for police reform; Community policing - the first steps; Community Police Forums - contradictory goals; Failure of the Community Police Forums; Evaluating the Community Forums; The problem of crime; The policing impediment to reform; The elevation of crime fighting; Private policing for the business class; Overview; 7 Community policing in other transitional societies; Introduction; The post-colonial appeal in Africa for community policing

The failure to contextualize community policing

Sommario/riassunto

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



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910410657003321

Titolo

Jurnal Kedokteran dan Kesehatan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palembang, Indonesia : , : Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Sriwijaya, , 2014-

ISSN

2614-0411

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Medicine

Health

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Indonesiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed