| Summary/Abstract |
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
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