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.
'This is an enlightening and stimulating book which is exciting considerable interest and will be influential for some time to come.' − Tom Williamson (from a review in British Society of Criminology Newsletter, no. 58, September 2005 )
1. Globalising Community-oriented Policing Part 1: Community Policing − Models and Critiques 2. Community-oriented Policing − the Anglo-American Model 3. Anglo-American Community Policing − Ten Myths 4. Community Policing on the Asian Pacific Rim 5. Aspects of Community Policing in the European Union and in Western Europe Part 2: Community Policing in Transitional and Failed Societies 6. South Africa: The Failure of Community Policing 7. Community Policing in Transitional Societies 8. Community Policing in Failed Societies 9. Creating Community Policing in Northern Ireland 10. Community Policing and Democratic Policing
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.
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.
For all of law’s emphasis on its originary claims, this article argues that modern law has always been heavily dependent on categories and a set of images and metaphors for constituting identities. ...The presence of a racialised Other in the written, verbal and visual form all reveal striking parallels in the metaphorical forms used in the categorisation of people in temporality. In essence, law’s commitment to principles of universality and equality, is practically sustained only by the reinvented and rationalized exclusions of racial particularity, and hierarchies of otherness, which are variously exotic, dangerous and irredeemable. What is clear from this binary division is that the processes of criminalizing the unruly heathens, the wayward savages and the lower strata in the early nineteenth century, was part of a process of knowledge production which drew heavily upon key images of morality and of pathology. Such a stratum, as in the parallel process in the colonies amongst the criminal savages, was anxiously understood through a proliferation of stereotypes and labels imbued with this threatening menace. This article further explores how this imagery was policed and disciplined, and also opens up the possibility to assess how these images impart the same mythic forces in the ongoing acts of violence and specters of postcolonial imperialism that persist in its new global forms. This article aims, to reveal that legal forms and identities, far from being stable in their construction, are inherently unstable, and remain forever in an ambivalent relationship to the things being constructed and those engaged in the construction.
This article seeks to identify how, and in what ways, the debate over ethnic identity acquired saliency during the different phases of black settlement in England, especially against the backcloth of ...the socio-cultural processes and the economics of colonialism. It outlines how the 'other' was constituted in different discourses, policies, and practices, and how these constructions were appropriated by the criminal justice agencies. Critically, ethnic identity as subordinate and 'inferior' was produced by many of the same mechanisms as was developed with regard to the indigenous 'criminal' class in Victorian England. Societal reaction, through criminal and civil statutes, established the identity of the ethnic minorities of early nineteenth century England, not just as subordinate strata, but also by a more complex process, as a variant of the newly emergent 'criminal' class. It is argued that, caught in the hub of empire, the 'ayahs', the 'lascars' and the domestic servants (See R. Visram, The Ayahs, Lascars and The Princes (London: Pluto).) in England's ports found themselves reconstructed as part of the 'criminal' class and subsequently subjected to disciplinary measures of social control and surveillance. The author argues with regard to the indigenous population, conceptions of the threat of the non-Western crystallised around the same popular images of 'savagery' and of moral degeneracy, a process reinforced in imperial fiction. A desire to 'civilise' and improve the peculiar habits of the non-Western followed directly from indigenous precedent.PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
This book provides a critical analysis of concept of community policing worldwide, assessing evidence for its effectiveness, and highlighting the often inappropriate export of community policing ...models to failed and transitional societies.
South Africa's past, racial division, and citizen suspicion will prove to be great obstacles to overcome ... South Africa may be the best test case of community oriented policing in the world. If the ...South African Police can successfully implement community-oriented policing under these conditions, then it may be possible to do so in any democratic country in the world.
In this chapter we outline the basic premises of community policing as it appears in the myriad offshoots in Anglo-American societies. The first part of the chapter explores the reasons for the ...movement towards community police, especially the apparent failure of traditional 'crime-fighting' policing. It summarises the key reasons why advocates have promoted a new approach to policing in the modern state on the basis of the apparent failure of that traditional policing. The second part outlines the key themes and variations with the continuing promises as it extends internationally.
