Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
While drawing attention to the globalization phenomenon in community policing, this book underscores the idea that as a philosophy, community policing means different things to different people. Contributing authors, selected from across the world for their reputations as experts are either directors of national police institutes, heads of criminal justice departments, or professors in police administration and criminal justice. The book presents 12 case studies from five continents including China. All the studies present research on doctrine/rhetoric, practices, and origins of community policing, as well as insight on trends, and includes much information not freely available.
Synopsis
Bringing together the research of anthropologists and criminologists, this volume explores the concept of community policing from a world-wide perspective. International experts provide case studies from a variety of communities that purport to espouse community policing. The book asserts that there is no consensual view of community policing, as each culture's philosophy is shaped by 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.