NCJ Number
147507
Journal
Crime and Delinquency Volume: 40 Issue: 2 Dated: (April 1994) Pages: 131- 153
Date Published
1994
Length
23 pages
Annotation
This essay examines how police should change their procedures for dealing with juvenile offenders in inner-city neighborhoods and proposes a model called reintegrative surveillance, which combines community-based corrections and community policing.
Abstract
Neither community-based corrections nor community policing is designed to handle serious, repeat offenders who are returning to high-crime neighborhoods. Police need to reexamine their roles to ensure that policies of maintaining order and consequences of disorder are not ambiguous or misleading to youths and that order maintenance and law enforcement practices do not interfere with the ability of police to protect youths as crime victims. Both tendencies are clearly widespread problems, and neither will be addressed as long as some neighborhoods and youth are considered beyond rehabilitation. Correctional programs need to reevaluate police as a pivotal community resource. Reintegrative surveillance must include a graded, consistent criminal justice response, as well as protection, vigilance, interagency goal-setting, and agency coordination. Figures, notes, and 84 references (Author abstract modified)