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

• Autore: Herbert Steven Kelly <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.2/3/0973
• Soggetto topico: Community organization - United States; Community life - United States; Community policing - United States; Police-community relations - United States; Crime prevention - Citizen participation - United States
• Soggetto non controllato: community, law enforcement, policing, crime, urban, city, trust, race, neighborhood, beat cop, nonfiction, collaboration, police, citizen participation, prevention, legitimacy, legal system, criminal justice, arrests, racism, governance, government, politics, democracy, social change, criminology, sociology, stop and frisk, search
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Citizens, cops, and power
• ISBN: 9786612537288; 1-282-53728-8; 0-226-32735-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780994903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II