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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459850203321

Autore

Ray John M. <1963->

Titolo

Rethinking community policing / / John M. Ray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, Texas : , : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-59332-784-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Criminal Justice : Recent Scholarship

Disciplina

363.2/3

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 index.

Sommario/riassunto

Community policing is in decline, threatened with obsolescence by data-driven practices like COMPSTAT and Intelligence-Led Policing. Efficiency driven and aided by technology, these practices are delivering on the crime reduction promises community policing aspired to. Ray argues that much of community policing's difficulties lie in the lack of a clear theoretical foundation informing its community engagement mandate. The uncritical incorporation of pluralism needlessly highlights the differences between police and community groups. Deliberative democratic theory offers a theoretical foundatio