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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455576503321

Autore

Herbert Steven Kelly <1959->

Titolo

Citizens, cops, and power [[electronic resource] ] : recognizing the limits of community / / Steve Herbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006

ISBN

9786612537288

1-282-53728-8

0-226-32735-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

363.2/3/0973

Soggetti

Community organization - United States

Community life - United States

Community policing - United States

Police-community relations - United States

Crime prevention - Citizen participation - United States

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 (p. 149-177) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Terrain of Community -- 2. The Political Status of Community -- 3. Elusive Legitimacy: Subservient, Separate, or Generative? -- 4. "Don't Drink the Kool-Aid": On the Resistance to Community Policing -- 5. "It Is So Difficult": The Complicated Pathways of Police-Community Relations -- 6. The Unbearable Lightness of Community -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with their protection. That strategy seems to make sense, but in Citizens, Cops, and Power, Steve Herbert reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever, works. Drawing on data he collected in diverse Seattle neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, Herbert identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration between



city dwellers and the police so unlikely to succeed. At the same time, he shows that residents' pragmatic ideas about the role of community differ dramatically from those held by social theorists. Surprising and provocative, Citizens, Cops, and Power provides a critical perspective not only on the future of community policing, but on the nature of state-society relations as well.