Steve Herbert
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226327303
- eISBN:
- 9780226327358
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226327358.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with ...
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Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with their protection. That strategy seems to make sense, but this book reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever, works. Drawing on data collected in diverse Seattle neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, this book identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration between city dwellers and the police so unlikely to succeed. At the same time, the book shows that residents' pragmatic ideas about the role of community differ dramatically from those held by social theorists. The book provides a critical perspective not only on the future of community policing, but on the nature of state-society relations as well.Less
Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with their protection. That strategy seems to make sense, but this book reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever, works. Drawing on data collected in diverse Seattle neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, this book identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration between city dwellers and the police so unlikely to succeed. At the same time, the book shows that residents' pragmatic ideas about the role of community differ dramatically from those held by social theorists. The book provides a critical perspective not only on the future of community policing, but on the nature of state-society relations as well.
Silvia Croydon
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198758341
- eISBN:
- 9780191818097
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198758341.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
This chapter assesses the positions of the key institutional actors, and their relative power, during the Prison Law reform attempts of the 1980s and 1990s. It sets out the argument that the ...
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This chapter assesses the positions of the key institutional actors, and their relative power, during the Prison Law reform attempts of the 1980s and 1990s. It sets out the argument that the principal reason for the use of substitute prison going beyond what one might consider an exceptional measure following the Occupation was the police’s increased reliance on the system as an investigative tool, with substitute prison being seen as a replacement for the various powers they lost during the post-war reforms. The evidence on which this conclusion is built is an in-depth study of three Prison Law reform attempts, which were the first time the substitute prison issue had been discussed in earnest since the Occupation. These episodes allow insight to be drawn into the positions of three key actors—the National Police Agency (NPA), Ministry of Justice (MOJ), and Japanese Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA).Less
This chapter assesses the positions of the key institutional actors, and their relative power, during the Prison Law reform attempts of the 1980s and 1990s. It sets out the argument that the principal reason for the use of substitute prison going beyond what one might consider an exceptional measure following the Occupation was the police’s increased reliance on the system as an investigative tool, with substitute prison being seen as a replacement for the various powers they lost during the post-war reforms. The evidence on which this conclusion is built is an in-depth study of three Prison Law reform attempts, which were the first time the substitute prison issue had been discussed in earnest since the Occupation. These episodes allow insight to be drawn into the positions of three key actors—the National Police Agency (NPA), Ministry of Justice (MOJ), and Japanese Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA).
