Community Policing Comparative perspectives and prospects
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Community Policing Comparative perspectives and prospects
Robert R. Friedmann
Georgia State University
Palgrave Macmillan
©
1992, Robert R. Friedmann
All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1992
ISBN 978-0-3I2-08672-5 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-312-08673-2 ISBN 978-1-137-07200-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-07200-9
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Friedmann, Robert R. Community policing : comparative perspectives and prospects / Robert R. Friedmann. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Community policing--Cross-cultural studies. HV7936.C83F75 1992 363.2'3--dc20
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92-20809 CIP
Dedicated to the memory of my father Richard, and to my mother Irene, my wife Yoki, and my children Oz and Meirav
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Contents
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Acknowledgements Preface
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Introduction Part I
Part II
The framework of community policing 1 Concepts and theoretical considerations in community policing 2 Crime, perceptions, attitudes and victimization 3 External and internal environments of community policing
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Police forces in their respective communities
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4 5 6 7 Part III
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Community Community Community Community States
policing policing policing policing
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Canada England Israel the United
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Trends, implications and prospects for community policing
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8 Current trends and implications 9 Emerging issues and future prospects
165 183
References and selected bibliography
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Index
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Acknowledgements
Many people offered generous support that greatly facilitated the publication of this book. Some inspired with their ideas and insight, some offered valuable advice and others assisted with onsite learning from the doers who participated in the various field experiments and actually carried out the ideas of community policing. Some were inspiring, whether as practitioners or scholars, or particularly, the very few who epitomize both so well. The efforts that went into this book are too numerous to acknowledge but there are clearly a number of individuals who deserve mention: David Bayley who helped with some conceptualization and clarifications of community policing through his writing as well as through his personal advice; other influential and perhaps more critical scholars were Jack Greene, Stephen Mastrofski and Dennis Rosenbaum. Also, in the United States, I was fortunate to learn first-hand about some of the most recent and perhaps most significant advances in community policing from the Portland Police Bureau and special thanks go to Sergeant Dave Austin there. It was refreshing to see a group of dedicated police chiefs and officers from cities like New York, Madison, Houston, Santa Ana, Baltimore and Portland, who at the 42nd American Society of Criminology Meetings in Baltimore, i
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