Defining community policing: practice versus paradigm

Ziembo‐Vogl, Joanne; Woods, DeVere D.

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“…The conflict also exists between community policing as envisioned by academics and theorists and community policing as interpreted and practiced by police organizations (Ziembo-Vogl and Woods 1996). These debates reflect the fundamental differences in goals, assumptions, priorities, scope of responsibilities, and evaluation criteria between the traditional policing and community policing models.…”

Section: The Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Discovering the Impact of Community Policing: The Broken Windows Thesis, Collective Efficacy, and Citizens’ Judgment

Fiedler

Flaming

2005

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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The main purpose of the present study is to demonstrate the structure, mechanisms, and efficacy of community policing and its impact on perceived disorder, crime, quality of life in the community, citizens’ fear, and satisfaction with the police. It compares traditional and community policing paradigms on three dimensions: goal, measurement of outcome, and approach to crime. It concludes that community policing has a comprehensive, community-oriented goal, targets both disorder and crime, and emphasizes both organizational and community measures in police evaluation. It also addresses the criticisms of community policing and tests the heatedly debated relationships concerning community policing, disorder, crime, citizen’s fear, and collective efficacy. The major findings of the study include (1) Harcourt’s falsification of Skogan’s findings is invalid because of the methodological flaws, and therefore does not negate the disorder-crime nexus; (2) Sampson and Raudenbush unintentionally demonstrate, through their reciprocal feedback models, that crime and disorder are indirectly related; (3) disorder has strong direct, indirect, and total effects on crime even with collective efficacy being controlled for; (4) contrary to intuition, disorder elicits more fear than crime; (5) community policing reduces crime indirectly; (6) collective efficacy plays a far less significant role in controlling disorder, crime, and fear than community policing; and (7) citizens’ fear and perceived life quality are significant predictors of citizen satisfaction with the police.

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Section: The Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Discovering the Impact of Community Policing: The Broken Windows Thesis, Collective Efficacy, and Citizens’ Judgment

Fiedler

Flaming

2005

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

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“…This proved more difficult than anticipated. The difficulty arose fiom the discrepancy between how researchers and practitioners define community policing (Ziembo-Vogl and Woods, 1996).…”

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Goals: Congruity and Conflict Among Police Officers and Police Chiefs

Woods

Craddock

2004

Journal of Crime and Justice

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“…Despite its dominance in practice, the conceptualisation of community policing remains rather vague (Terpstra, 2009), inconsistently articulated (Ziembo-Vogl and Woods, 1996) and ‘chameleon’ in character (Fielding, 2005). As early as 1996, Seagrave, in a review of the literature, commented on the fondness of academics for the ‘ingredients’ list approach to defining community policing.…”

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Democratic policing, community policing and the fallacy of conflation in international police development missions

Shilston

2015

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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In international police development missions it has become common practice to regard ‘community policing’ as a synonym for ‘democratic policing’. It is argued here that democratic policing is the parent concept and that community policing is simply one among a range of possible manifestations of some, but by no means all, of the democratic policing ideals (in so far as they can be identified). To conflate the two, or even to recognise the difference yet accord equal status, is a category error. The result yields two corrosive products: incomplete application of democratic policing in every case, and cultural inappropriateness in some.

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Defining community policing: practice versus paradigm

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Discovering the Impact of Community Policing: The Broken Windows Thesis, Collective Efficacy, and Citizens’ Judgment

Discovering the Impact of Community Policing: The Broken Windows Thesis, Collective Efficacy, and Citizens’ Judgment

Goals: Congruity and Conflict Among Police Officers and Police Chiefs

Democratic policing, community policing and the fallacy of conflation in international police development missions

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