Controlling crime through networks

Brewer, Russell

doi:10.22459/rt.02.2017.26

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“…Incompetence Badly implemented co-production reduces social outcomes Lack of social and community coordination Poorly coordinated co-production results in waste of citizen and public services resources (Ayling, 2005;Brewer, 2017), while the costs of coordination can be high (Brudney and Dunscombe, 1992)…”

Section: Inefficient or Ineffective Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Focus by co-producing citizens on those crimes which affect them rather than the general public (Brewer, 2017) or on those public policies with which they agree (Steen et al, 2018) Over-regulation Co-production, by bringing in new actors who do not understand normal public public service procedures, may require these procedures to be spelled out in much more detail…”

Section: Lack Of Public Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lack of transparency Difficulties in monitoring the contributions of service user and community contributions (e.g. how much 'spying on neighbours' occurs in Neighbourhood Watch schemes) Lack of accountability Difficulties in holding service users, communities and volunteers to account when agreed procedures for reporting crime have not been implemented (Brewer, 2017) Blurred accountability may make it harder to identify and tackle failing professionals and managers (Steen et al, 2018) Citizens may also become over-committed to co-produced activities, losing their critical perspective (Salamon, 2002)…”

Section: Failure To Conform To Public Governance Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessing the impact of co-production on pathways to outcomes in public services: the case of policing and criminal justice

Loeffler

Bovaird

2019

International Public Management Journal

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There has recently been an upsurge of interest in the role of co-production in public services.This paper focuses on how the capabilities of public service users and other citizens can improve the outcomes of public services such as policing and the criminal justice system, where the role of citizens is altering significantly. The paper develops a model of pathways to public service outcomes, showing the connections between citizen co-production and the core activities in policing and criminal justice, in line with the classic public policy model of problem prevention, detection, treatment, support for recovery and rehabilitation, and contribution to higher quality of life outcomes. The paper then explores the empirical evidence from the literature for the impacts of each of the identified pathways to outcomes in this co-production model. The literature review finds some evidence for almost all relationships modelled but also reveals serious limitations in the research base.

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Section: Inefficient or Ineffective Practicesmentioning

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Section: Lack Of Public Investmentmentioning

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Section: Failure To Conform To Public Governance Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessing the impact of co-production on pathways to outcomes in public services: the case of policing and criminal justice

Loeffler

Bovaird

2019

International Public Management Journal

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“…It focuses on fluid interactions among individuals and determines social structures empirically, rather than relying on theoretical classifications thereby avoiding some of the pitfalls in traditional thinking about organized crime (Kriegler, 2014). That means in the modern state, controlling crime before it happens has become shaped by networks that integrate the public police with a host of other actors involved in the authorization and delivery of security services (Brewer, 2017).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Social Network Theorymentioning

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Crime Prevention Through Community Policing Interventions: Evidence from Harar City, Eastern Ethiopia

Adugna

Italemahu

2019

Hum.

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In Ethiopia, community policing has been announced ofcially as a national program in 2005 E.C with the impetus to nullify crimes at lower tiers. There have been growing reports of prevailing crimes in Jenila district of Harar city. Accordingly, this study endeavors to scrutinize the practices of community policing and associated challenges in the study site. A mixed research deign was used to fetch out primary and secondary data sets. Hence, the participants’ views were captured through questionnaires, key informant interviews and focused group discussions. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequency, bar graph and percentages. The fnding of the study revealed that a greater proportions of the respondents recognized that community policing practices had contributed in preventing crimes; burglary 94 (27%) and robbery 77 (22%) as most frequently recurring and reported types of crimes in the city. While community policing structures and concerned actors operate to smoothly run the programs, there were cropping up predicaments at the grass root levels. Limited awareness among the residents, inadequate fnancial resources and professionally ill-qualifed human power were reported as major obstructions. In the face of increasing crimes, both in terms of intensity and types on the one hand, and intricate challenges to penetrate through on the other hand, the communities of residents aspire to dive deep with a sense of ownership and exploit the opportunities for intensifying the programs stated in community policing programs. Eventually, there was need to move in concerted manner to lessen the impacts of crimes in Jenila district of Harar city.

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‘It’s about using the full sanction catalogue’: on boundary negotiations in a multi-agency organised crime investigation

Bjelland

Vestby

2017

Policing and Society

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Inter-organisational and inter-disciplinary investigations are increasingly deployed against criminal networks and cross-jurisdictional crimes. This study provides a unique empirical window into an inter-organisational investigation against a large organized crime network in Norway. Building on interview data from the participants in the multiagency investigation team that was summoned for this case, the article discusses coordination issues that arise when organisations with different goals and interests collaborate to reach a common goal. The article studies co-ordination from inside of the investigation team and discusses the interchangeable use of criminal and administrative law. While bridging organisational boundaries enable agencies to pool powers, coordination across organisations may challenge the protection of sometimes conflicting aims and interests.Keywords: organisational boundaries, inter-organisational co-ordination, security networks, policing 2 IntroductionOslo area, September 2014: After a period of comprehensive communication surveillance and covert investigation, 280 officers from the police, the Tax Administration (henceforth 'TA'), and the Labour and Welfare Administration ('Labour & Welfare') carried out a raid on 20 shops in the 'Lime' grocery chain. The grocery chain was established and operated by an organised criminal network that was previously known to the police. The shops were profitable to the network who allegedly utilised human trafficking for forced labour, illicit work, money laundering, benefit fraud, tax evasion, violations of immigration law, employment offences, identity theft, and credit card fraud i . The raid marked the beginning of a prolonged multi-agency investigation, covering a variety of criminal and administrative violations. The investigation was structured as a multi-agency project, which meant that investigators from all participating agencies (police, TA, Labour & Welfare) were removed from their daily tasks, co-localised in a shared, rented office space, and co-ordinated by the Lime project's chief investigator.Pluralisation characterises contemporary policing, and partnerships as well as networked security governance between state and non-state actors have been examined empirically (Gundhus et al., 2008, Nøkleberg, 2016, Søgaard et al., 2016. This study explores the co-ordination of state powers in the multi-agency Lime project. While the literature on the pluralisation of policing and nodal governance of security (Johnston andWood, 2003) emphasises the role of non-state agents in the provision of security, this study delves into the heterogeneity of powers and interests in state sector governmental nodes. Partnership working and information sharing among public agencies intensifies 'the state gaze' […] in a way which is valued for its ability to make the daily work of the various state agents easier. '(O'Neill and Loftus, 2013, p. 451). This study contributes to the existing literature in two ways: Empirically, through studying the internal 3 operations of...

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Controlling crime through networks

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Assessing the impact of co-production on pathways to outcomes in public services: the case of policing and criminal justice

Assessing the impact of co-production on pathways to outcomes in public services: the case of policing and criminal justice

Crime Prevention Through Community Policing Interventions: Evidence from Harar City, Eastern Ethiopia

‘It’s about using the full sanction catalogue’: on boundary negotiations in a multi-agency organised crime investigation

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