NCJ Number
113939
Journal
Journal of Security Administration Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Dated: (June 1988) Pages: 53-66
Date Published
1988
Length
14 pages
Annotation
This paper is based on ongoing research related to crime prevention activities in which the authors are currently engaged. The advent of an ideology rationalizing the empowerment of citizen action groups for crime prevention and a reliance on informal social controls as crime control mechanisms, has led to changing relationships between the police and the public.
Abstract
The implications of these changing power relationships will be explored in this paper. Also the ideological importance of policies casting the police in the role of gatekeepers regulating citizen action and 'popular justice' will be analyzed. (Author abstract)