272 Pages
by Willan

272 Pages
by Willan

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... Read more
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

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Mike Brogden, Preeti Nijhar

'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)