Wisler / Onwudiwe Community Policing

International Patterns and Comparative Perspectives
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4200-9359-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Reihe: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

Community-oriented policing (COP) is the ideology and policy model espoused in the mission statements of nearly all policing forces throughout the world. However, the COP philosophy is interpreted differently by different countries and police forces, resulting in practices that may in fact run far afield of the community-based themes of partnership, responsiveness, and transparency. Community Policing: International Patterns and Comparative Perspectives provides a comprehensive survey of purported practices of COP, clarifying the concept and differentiating true COP from other models which follow the ideology in name only. International contributors profile practices in five continents
Using a case study approach, this eye-opening discourse reveals and examines contemporary patterns of alleged community policing across five continents. Providing insiders’ insight into the myriad practices in a variety of communities, the authors highlight the fact that policing in the countries profiled is heavily influenced by several factors. No matter how strongly the vision of COP permeates a police force’s mission, the significant factors that influence the policing culture are existing social and cultural traditions and structures, conventional methods already in place, the cultural and ideological language that sustains these practices, the efforts of entrepreneurs to argue for or against new ways of policing, and the social capital base found in the society.

Arriving at the conclusion that there is no consensual model of community policing, the detailed analysis in this volume makes this absence of agreement abundantly clear. Separating rhetoric from reality, this illuminating study is a practical, realistic contribution to the expanding literature on community-oriented policing.

Zielgruppe

Criminal justice academics and students, comparative criminologists, law enforcement executives and policy makers, social scientists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wisler, Dominique

Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Rethinking Police and Society: Community Policing in Comparison
D. Wisler and I. D. Onwudiwe
Community Policing in a High Crime Transitional State: The Case of South Africa Since Democratization in 1994

A. Minnaar
Reforming Community, Reclaiming the State: The Development of Sungusungu in Northern Tanzania
S. Heald
Community Policing: The Case of Informal Policing in Nigeria

I. D. Onwudiwe
The French Centralized Model of Policing: Control of the Citizens

C. Mouhanna
Community Policing in Belgium: The Vicissitudes of the Development of a Police Model

S. Smeets and C. Tange
Patterns of Community Policing in Britain

A. Kalunta-Crumpton
Community Policing in the United States: Social Control Through Image Management

D. E. Barlow and M. H. Barlow
Fit for Purpose: Working with the Community to Strengthen Policing in Victoria, Australia

J. Casey and D. Pike
A Chinese Theory of Community Policing

K. C. Wong
The Police, Community, and Community Justice Institutions in India

S. G. Vincentnathan and L. Vincentnathan
Community Policing and Police Reform in Latin America

Hugo Frühling
Authors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dominique Wisler is a United Nations consultant in Troinex, Switzerland. Ihekwoaba D. Onwudiwe is a professor at Texas Southern University in Houston.