ID | 164015 |
Title Proper | In search of the perfect cop |
Other Title Information | the philosophy behind community policing |
Language | ENG |
Author | Prabhu, Swapna S ; Mohapatra, Niranjan |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | Community Policing (CP) is a new philosophy of police administration which believes that creative solutions for various problems can be sought and quality of life in the community can be improved only by working together via police-community interaction. Mainstream CP literature starts with a basic observation which informs every theory throughout maintaining that in a democratic State run by the people we must understand how common people conceive the nature of crime and role of the police. A cursory review of literature reveals that in spite of its success, there is no scientific, logical, predictable, refutable theory explaining and explicating, predicting and refuting CP practices. The present paper is an attempt to do so and would analyse various theoretical constructs that support and strengthen the basic ideas relating to disorganisation and social control, democratic policing, public order management and different methods and styles of community policing |
`In' analytical Note | Dialogue Vol. 19, No.4; Apr-Jun 2018: p.123-135 |
Journal Source | Dialogue 2018-06 19, 4 |
Key Words | Social structure ; Communitarianism ; Crime Control ; Community Policing, Democracy ; Participatory Democratic System |