A new descriptive metaphor of two policing strategies, Professional Policing and CommunityOriented Policing (COP), is created in this paper. This is done by examining the individual policing styles of the two officers of the Mayberry, NC Sheriff’s Department. Mayberry is a fictional town popularized by the Andy Griffith Show. Deputy Fife exemplifies the Professional Policing model, while Sherif...

Increasing numbers of police professionals have decided to practice evidence-based policing. Yet many of these ‘‘early adopters’’ encounter opposition from their colleagues. Advocates of evidencebased policing (EBP) increasingly ask whether, or how, an entire agency can be transformed at about the same time, rapidly creating a ‘‘tipping point’’ for ‘‘totally evidenced’’ policing—defined as a st...

Empirical research on organized crime policies is scarce. As a consequence, debates and policies lack a firm empirical basis and are mainly based upon normative grounds and untested assumptions. The aim of this study is to contribute to the empirical evidence by giving insight into the practice and results of two counterstrategies to organized crime in the Netherlands: the criminal justice appr...

Policing is regarded as an important mechanism for maintaining cooperation in human and animal social groups. A simple model providing a theoretical overview of the coevolution of policing and cooperation has been analyzed by Frank (1995, 1996b, 2003, 2009), and this suggests that policing will evolve to fully suppress cheating within social groups when relatedness is low. Here, we relax some o...

This article explores new forms of policing in New York, Chicago, and Boston. These cities developed new policing strategies that each involves a different combination of problem solving and new forms of “community policing”. The article explores whether these developments resulted in crime reduction and changes in belief in the efficacy of policing. The article concludes by considering the cos...

In social groups where relatedness among interacting individuals is low, cooperation can often only be maintained through mechanisms that repress competition among group members. Repression-of-competition mechanisms, such as policing and punishment, seem to be of particular importance in human societies, where cooperative interactions often occur among unrelated individuals. In line with this v...

This article explores the reproduction of ethnified urban spaces and inequalities in an ostensibly cosmopolitan city. It does so by means of a case study of bouncers’ policing practices in the nightlife of the Danish city, Aarhus. In recent years, a substantial body of research has explored the regulatory practices of bouncers operating in the urban nighttime economy. This article contributes t...