This paper presents preliminary findings of an ethnographic doctoral study of police chaplaincy in Australia focusing on strategies for understanding and cultivating a community of practice. It argues that police chaplains are engaged in a complex community of practice with overlapping demands. Whilst they share notions of purpose and a conceptual value system, developing appropriate ways to un...

Third party policing’ describes police efforts to persuade or coerce third parties, such as landlords, parents, local governments and other regulators, and business owners, to take some responsibility for preventing crime or reducing crime problems. In third party policing, the police create crime control guardians in locations or situations where crime control guardianship was previously absen...

In a sample of young people in Northern Ireland (N = 819), we examine the relationships between the quality of experience with police officers and police legitimacy. We examine potential pathways through which experiences may either support or undermine the legitimacy of the police, and thus cooperation and compliance with them. We find evidence that perceptions of the police as having goals th...

Community participation is one the fundamental tenets of community policing practice. In relation to policing, implies a process in which residents act, voice their opinions, and take responsibility for crime prevention. However, key issues literature how this constructed maintained. Hence, understanding critical implementation contemporary policing. Keeping view, case study was conducted 2018 ...

In June 1995 "ethnic riots" appeared on the streets of Bradford, West Yorkshire. Senior police were heard on television to condemn "ethnic leaders" for their failure to control their youth, who had erupted into violence following police attempts to arrest two Mirpuri teenagers. Police went on to say that the youth were alienated both from British society and from their "own ethnic community". M...

Over the past several decades and especially in the past decade, a broad trend in the world of policing has been the move toward more preventive and proactive styles. Beginning as a way to increase police legitimacy (Tilley 2003), community policing promotes stronger relations between police and communities to develop a greater flow of information about crime problems and aims to cultivate an e...

The New Haven Department of Police Services and the Child Study Center at the Yale University School of Medicine have developed a unique collaborative program to address the psychological impact of the chronic exposure to community violence on children and families. The Child Development–Community Policing (CD–CP) program brings police officers and mental health professionals together to provid...

Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have offered governments new opportunities to enhance citizen participation in democratic processes. The participation opportunities afforded by ICT may be particularly pertinent for youths, who are more likely to be ICT-savvy and yet are reported to show declining participation in politics. The currently increasing exclusion of yout...