Hard Cop, Soft Cop: Dilemmas and Debates in Contemporary Policing

ISBN-13: 9781843920489 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 320 str.

Roger Hopkins Burke

Opis

This a book about policing styles in the broadest sense, looking at zero tolerance policing at one extreme and softer approaches to policing at the other. On the one hand there has been clear popular support for zero policing strategies, whilst proponents of softer approaches to policing have argued that there has been little evidence that such initiatives do actually in themselves reduce crime, and risk generating social unrest.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: policing contemporary society  Part 1: Policing Contemporary Communities  2. Zero tolerance in New York City: hard questions for a get-tough policy  3. Policing incivilities in Germany  4. Over-policing and under-policing social exclusion  5. Policing British Asian communities  6. Discipline and flourish: probation and the new correctionalism  7. 'Softly, softly', private security and the policing of corporate space  Part 2: Policing Contemporary Offences  8. Using crackdowns constructively in crime reduction  9. Tackling the roots of theft: reducing tolerance toward stolen goods markets  10. Stalking the stalker: a review of policing strategies  11. Policing financial crime: the Financial Services Authority and the myth of the 'duped investor'  12. Hard coating, soft centre? The role of the police in Dordrecht offender rehabilitation programmes  Part 3: Democracy, Accountability and Human Rights  13. What's law got to do with it? Some reflections on the police in light of developments in New York City  14. Policing and the Human Rights Act 1998  15. Human rights v. community rights: the case of the Anti- Social Behaviour Order  16. Conclusion: policing contemporary society revisited

O autorze

Roger Hopkins Burke is Principal Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University. His research interests include criminological theory, young people and crime, generic policing and social control, and crime prevention. Recent publications include Zero Tolerance Policing (Perpetuity Press, 1998), An Introduction to Criminological Theory, 3e (Willan Publishing, 2009),  and Young People, Crime and Justice (Willan Publishing, 2008).