CONCEPTUALISING ALTERNATIVE POLICING STYLES (FROM ALTERNATIVE POLICING STYLES: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES, P 5-14, 1993, MARK FINDLAY AND UGLJESA ZVEKIC, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-146911)

• NCJ Number: 146912
• Author(s): M Findlay; U Zvekic
• Date Published: 1993
• Length: 10 pages
• Sale Source: Kluwer Law International
• Publication Type: Research (Theoretical)
• Language: English
• Country: Italy

Annotation

This paper discusses the concepts and analysis of alternative policing styles that will be examined in subsequent chapters of the book.

Abstract

"Alternative" policing refers to policing styles and structures not based in the traditional criminal justice institutions of the state. "Style" is a way of doing police work and the manner of its representation. The creation of a policing style is largely the negotiation of meanings about policing within a particular context. Policing styles analyzed in subsequent chapters are examined from various perspectives. One component of analysis involves the structural variables essential for the policing style. Another component consists of the contextual explanations for such differences. A third component examined is the manner in which authority sources, regulatory frameworks, and decisionmaking processes within particular policing styles establish and affect power relations between the police, the state, and the community. The remaining component focuses on the aims, outcomes, perceptions, and discourse of policing that relate to the interactions associated with police power and authority. 8 footnotes