NCJ Number
134800
Editor(s)
P Willmott
Date Published
1987
Length
67 pages
Annotation
These 5 papers discuss the development of community policing as part of a more general trend to introduce the concepts of community into policy and practice in a variety of areas related to social welfare in Great Britain.
Abstract
These concepts represent a reaction against the scale and remoteness of many of the institutions of contemporary society and demonstrate the belief that people want and are able to contribute to the solution of their problems. Individual papers review the experience of community policing in terms of two major initiatives (more foot patrol and the encouragement of community crime prevention programs) and examine the relationship between police work and the informal policing carried out by citizens and local business people. Other papers describe the composition and characteristic development of local advisory committees, argue that crime prevention should be led by local governments rather than by the police, and present results of recent research indicating that the use of community policing ideas has made little difference or has not produced the intended results. Chapter reference lists