Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Crime, Insecurity, and Policing
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Crime, Violence, and Insecurity
- 3 The Policing Challenge
- 4 Understanding Community Policing
- 5 Studying Community Policing
- Part II The Effects of Community Policing
- Part III Reflecting on Community Policing
- References
- Index
- Series page
1 - Introduction
from Part I - Crime, Insecurity, and Policing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Part I Crime, Insecurity, and Policing
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Crime, Violence, and Insecurity
- 3 The Policing Challenge
- 4 Understanding Community Policing
- 5 Studying Community Policing
- Part II The Effects of Community Policing
- Part III Reflecting on Community Policing
- References
- Index
- Series page
Summary
This chapter introduces the concept of community policing and provides a brief history of the practice and its spread. The chapter then identifies a significant gap in rigorous evidence of its efficacy, especially as the practice has been adopted by police agencies in the Global South and describes the core enterprise of the research agenda: a set of coordinated, randomized-control trials evaluating the impact of community policing in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The chapter concludes with a summary of the findings and a discussion of broader implications for the study of policing.
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- Crime, Insecurity, and Community PolicingExperiments on Building Trust, pp. 3 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024