Few well designed evaluations have found strong support for neighbourhood watch (NW) schemes; in fact there have been no formal, published, peer reviewed evaluations of NW in Australia. This paper argues for a change in focus in what is examined to determine success. Overseas evaluations suggest such schemes are ineffective because they looked at whether NW prevented and reduced the fear of cri...

At a time of increasing enthusiasm for proactive crime control, this paper draws on extended research in Cabramatta, Sydney's principal street-level heroin market, to caution that crackdowns on such markets may have counterproductive effects. These include serious risks to public health, threats to community safety as a result of geographical, social and substance displacement, and harm to poli...

Minority racial and ethnic groups often view themselves as targets of abusive treatment at the hands of the police. Although racial variation in public assessments of the police in the United States has been amply documented in past research, less research has explored the sources of these differences at the intersection of demographic, interactional, and ecological levels. This article examine...

Haul Mbah Priok's activities have the potential to cause disturbances in Kamtibmas, especially during Covid-19 pandemic. Police are expected play an active role preventing various forms of social problems, including problems that may arise at Priok. This study aims determine relationship between National and Community Securing Priok pandemic by Tanjung Port Police. research was conducted with a...

Police-public relations in Nigeria has been marred by issues of distrust, torture and violence. This study adopts a systematic review to fill gap on the interventions relied improve public trust for police perspectives these interventions. 11 studies met inclusion criteria. Informed principles thematic analysis, it was found that there were scepticism, lack trust, perceived ineffectiveness comm...

Ethnic minority communities in Nordic countries are increasingly subject to stereotypical and proactive policing practices. These developments have inspired new research on police-community relations. This article presents findings police cooperativeness amongst ethnic parents residing a disadvantaged neighbourhood Denmark, based qualitative data from ten-month field study. Taking ‘critical leg...

1 The disproportionate use of police powers against black and minority ethnic populations is one of the major fault-lines in police-community relations in Britain and the USA. While various forms of regulation have been attempted the broad thrust of the approach has been rather different in the two jurisdictions. In the US regulation leans towards a conflict model where litigation is common and...