CRIM 131 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11-12: Broken Windows Theory, Community Policing, Problem Solving

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 131
• Professor: Sarah Yercich

Document Summary

Community policing- a philosophical, organizational, and operational to urban policing which emphasizes a police-community partnership to solve local crime and disorder problems. Partnership activities provide the focal point for identifying local crime and disorder problems, setting priorities for the problems, and developing solutions. The broken window theory proposes when potential offenders perceive neighbourhood decay and deterioration (ex, broken windows, and graffiti) they conclude that the neighborhood is ripe for the picking and has few defences against crime. When charges in perceptions and attitudes result in changes in reality then crime is actually reduced, thereby making streets and homes safer. Tiered policing- mass private space is monitored by private police, the surveillance of mass public space may also be contracted out to private police using motorized control. Officers in canada enforce laws under the command of their chief of police at the municipal level. Police control is held by police boards.