SOC316H5 Lecture Notes - Gated Community, Community Policing, Crime Prevention
Document Summary
Community policing: associated penal welfare, emerged in 1950-1960, but has changed over time. Crime prevention models: crime prevention through social development, situation crime prevention, crime prevention through law enforcement. Community policing definition: develops the idea of partnership between policing and community, new management style as decentralizes (questions top-down structure) and personalize it (gives more flexibility) Limited information gathering: police service are centralized (top-down model takes away for the creativity of the police at front lies, focus on tactical patrols (not focusing or policing the same neighbourhood, fewer resources in preventative activities. Central features: proactive and not reactive, equipped to analyze the cause of problems, develop a plan so that there is less overall crime, to do this, it requires a collaborative approach (problem-solving focus) Documentary: about of rise of private policing. 31/2 to 1 ration: due to shrinking confidence of cash-strapped public police (protecting gated community, prisons, even displacing in public places, airports)
