Community Policing

Fielding, Nigel

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“…The social sciences have a legacy of seminal studies of policing including ethnographies from academics (Banton, 1964;Manning, 1977;Bittner, 1967;Fielding, 1995) and insider police researchers (Holdaway, 1983). Reiner (2010) categorises five stages of policing research in the UK which include: 'consensus' in the 1960s, where studies were celebratory of policing; 'controversy' in the 1970s where studies were critical of policing; 'conflict' literature emerging at the end of the 1970s; a 'contradictory' stage in the late 1980s involving a new realism; and a fifth stage of crime control.…”

Section: Policing Research and The Social Sciencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’

Lumsden

Goode

2016

Sociology

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Section: Policing Research and The Social Sciencesmentioning

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“…Included here is the legacy of seminal studies of policing, often involving ethnographies of police culture (e.g. Banton, 1964;Manning, 1977;Fielding, 1995;Holdaway, 1983), which shed valuable insight on this social world. As Denzin et al EBP presents police with only a partial glimpse of the available research that has potential use in the policing context.…”

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Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’

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Goode

2016

Sociology

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“…Thus: '…the determination of what is compliance rests in the social construction and reconstruction of reality by control agents and by those they seek to control' (Reiss, 1984: 93). It is important for police officers to have knowledge of the various groups which comprise a particular community and in order to keep their categories up-todate, the police officer has to be close to the people (Fielding, 1995). As Punch (1979: 127) notes:…”

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“…Since the seminal police studies of the 1960s and 1970s, accounts of police work have shown that the definitional decisions of police officers are influenced by a whole range of exogenous and endogenous factors (see Banton, 1964;Cain, 1973;Chatterton, 1976;Fielding, 1995;Holdaway, 1983;Manning, 1977;Punch, 1979).…”

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Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour

Lumsden

2013

Policing and Society

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This paper explores the policing and regulation of young motorists known in the United Kingdom as 'boy racers'. It demonstrates how police officers' definitional decisions in relation to driving behaviours were influenced by a range of exogenous and endogenous factors, which subsequently shaped the landscape of enforcement and interactions with the community and drivers. A shift over time in the nature of the problem due to urban regeneration, innovations in the technology of the motor car, and the availability of anti-social behaviour legislation impacted upon the policing of urban space. The strategies employed in order to police the culture and the related urban space were reminiscent of a deeper policing tradition wherein managing incivilities and local problems is part of the community policing perspective. Data is presented from semi-structured interviews with police, residents, and 'boy racers', and ethnographic fieldwork with the drivers in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Why ‘soft’ policing is hard: on the curious development of reassurance policing, how it became neighbourhood policing and what this signifies about the politics of police reform

Innés

2005

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Tracing the development of Reassurance Policing and its recent translation into Neighbourhood Policing, this article examines why it is that 'soft' policing functions appear so difficult for the police to perform. It is argued that over the past three decades the reform of policing in the UK has tended to oscillate between positions emphasizing coercive 'hard' policing functions and alternative conceptions that focus upon the conduct of soft policing, where the emphasis is upon a more persuasive mode of social control. Reassurance Policing is identified as important as, through its incorporation of aspects of the Signal Crimes Perspective, it provides a coherent logic that sets out why both hard and soft policing are important. It is concluded that future policing styles need to be able to respond to the diverse demands of the public and that this will require a combination of hard and soft policing.

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Community Policing

Cited by 32 publications

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Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’

Policing Research and the Rise of the ‘Evidence-Base’: Police Officer and Staff Understandings of Research, its Implementation and ‘What Works’

Policing the roads: traffic cops, ‘Boy Racers’ and anti-social behaviour

Why ‘soft’ policing is hard: on the curious development of reassurance policing, how it became neighbourhood policing and what this signifies about the politics of police reform

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