SOSC 2652 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: New York City Police Department, Iceberg, Broken Windows Theory

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2652
• Professor: Anna Pratt

Document Summary

Community policing is based on the three ps, prevention, problem solving, and partnership (with the community) The key principle of community policing are: citizens are responsible for actively involving themselves in identifying and responding to problems in their neighborhoods and communities. Figuire 5. 1- police-community relations: community partnership versus justice process. Justice process- information from community to identify witness" and offenders- bring offenders to court- court process- community unlikely to be aware of what happens- traditional policing. Traditional policing-community depends on police and justice system; no other resources mobilized outside the formal justice system. Community partnership- meeting with communities to identify nature of problem not only the offenders- cjs wide response to the whole problem- local government, schools, victim services engaged in tackling the identified issues- community is given feedback and is aware- Community policing- engagement of community and other agencies to identify and resolve problems. This can be used to identify hot spots .