Community policing presents its own distinct governance and accountability challenges. Local community police officers, for example, can find themselves stretched between the accountability demands of the local community and those flowing from professional, managerial and central government sources. Drawing on the results of a recent ethnographic study on neighbourhood police officers in rural and urban areas in the Netherlands, this article probes the nature and extent of these tensions and the coping strategies deployed by the officers in question and the police organisation as a whole. It finds that a regular strategy is to neutralise or marginalise the voice of the local community in shaping police priorities and strategies. Local democ...
Resurgent efforts to reconnect the police with local communities and encourage more positive engagem...
Community policing seems always in vogue, yet its essential qualities remain elusive. There has been...
Abstract There is a lively and long-running debate in the literature about what community policing i...
Community policing presents its own distinct governance and accountability challenges. Local communi...
Abstract This paper deals with the question of the extent to which the ambitions of community polici...
Neighbourhood policing, a contemporary form of community policing developed in the United Kingdom (U...
This article draws on interview data and the concepts of organisational ‘culture’ and ‘climate’ to c...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study examines the concepts and practices of 'community...
Dutch policing has followed the three generations of community policing identified elsewhere. The pa...
The roots of community policing can be traced to Wilson and Kelling’s “broken windows ” theory. Sinc...
Abstract Community policing is currently a leading paradigm in Western police forces, not least in t...
ecent events have identified a range of attempts to strike a balance in police accountability betwee...
The involvement of citizens and communities in public service decision-making has been the focus of ...
The movement in law enforcement toward community-based policing has prompted debate about such thing...
During the 1970s a series of events irrevocably changed the way in which policing was carried out in...
Resurgent efforts to reconnect the police with local communities and encourage more positive engagem...
Community policing seems always in vogue, yet its essential qualities remain elusive. There has been...
Abstract There is a lively and long-running debate in the literature about what community policing i...
Community policing presents its own distinct governance and accountability challenges. Local communi...
Abstract This paper deals with the question of the extent to which the ambitions of community polici...
Neighbourhood policing, a contemporary form of community policing developed in the United Kingdom (U...
This article draws on interview data and the concepts of organisational ‘culture’ and ‘climate’ to c...
grantor: University of TorontoThis study examines the concepts and practices of 'community...
Dutch policing has followed the three generations of community policing identified elsewhere. The pa...
The roots of community policing can be traced to Wilson and Kelling’s “broken windows ” theory. Sinc...
Abstract Community policing is currently a leading paradigm in Western police forces, not least in t...
ecent events have identified a range of attempts to strike a balance in police accountability betwee...
The involvement of citizens and communities in public service decision-making has been the focus of ...
The movement in law enforcement toward community-based policing has prompted debate about such thing...
During the 1970s a series of events irrevocably changed the way in which policing was carried out in...
Resurgent efforts to reconnect the police with local communities and encourage more positive engagem...
Community policing seems always in vogue, yet its essential qualities remain elusive. There has been...
Abstract There is a lively and long-running debate in the literature about what community policing i...