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Author Herbert, Steven Kelly, 1959-

Title Citizens, cops, and power : recognizing the limits of community / Steve Herbert
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 180 pages)
Contents 1. The terrain of community -- 2. The political status of community -- 3. Elusive legitimacy : subservient, separate, or generative? -- 4. "Don't drink the Kool-Aid" : on the resistance to community policing -- 5. "It is so difficult" : the complicated pathways of police-community relations -- 6. The unbearable lightness of community
Summary 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 in Citizens, Cops, and Power, Steve Herbert reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever, works. Drawing on data he collected in diverse Seattle neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, Herbert identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration between city dwellers and the police so unlikely to succeed. At the same time, he shows that residents' pragmatic ideas about the role of community differ dramatically from those held by social theorists. Surprising and provocative, Citizens, Cops, and Power provides a critical perspective not only on the future of community policing, but on the nature of state-society relations as well
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-177) and index
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Subject Community organization -- United States
Community life -- United States
Community policing -- United States
Police-community relations -- United States
Crime prevention -- United States -- Citizen participation
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement.
Community life
Community organization
Community policing
Crime prevention -- Citizen participation
Police-community relations
Kommunalpolitik
Polizeiaufgabe
Kriminalität
Prävention
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005021525
ISBN 9780226327358
0226327353
0226327302
9780226327303
9786612537288
6612537280
1282537288
9781282537286