CRJU 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Neighborhood Watch, Community Policing, Physical Disorder
17 Nov 2016
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Community policing: as a result of a series of crises in policing, new policing strategies emerged in the 1970s and. Community relations of the 1960s created a crisis of legitimacy. Research undermined the assumptions of traditional police management and police reform. Experts recognized the police role is extremely complex, involving many tasks and responsibilities. Experts began to recognize the importance of citizens as co-producers of police services. The roots of community policing: broken windows hypothesis, police should address those problems that create fear of crime and lead to neighborhood decay. Relationship between disorder, neighborhood decay, and crime. Police should intervene at the beginning of the process of neighborhood deteriation. Types of disorder: two major subcategories of disorder. Characteristics of community oriented policing: a major change in the role of police. Cop broadens the police role to include dealing with fear of crime, order maintenance, conflict resolution, neighborhood decay, and social and physical disorder.
