| Hard Cop, Soft Cop Contributor(s): Hopkins Burke, Roger (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1843920484 ISBN-13: 9781843920489 Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $138.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: This is 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, while proponents of softer approaches to policing have argued that there has been little evidence that such initiatives do actually reduce crime, and risk generating social unrest. This book explores the dilemmas and moral ambiguities inherent in the tensions between different policing approaches. Rather than seeking to juxtapose "hard" and "soft" policing styles, the guiding thread of the book is the notion that policing is both pervasive and insidious. Different policing styles, whether conducted by the public police service, private security or social work agencies, are all part of a multi-agency corporate crime control industry which provides the essential context for an understanding of these different approaches. Contents: 1. Introduction: P |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Law Enforcement - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 306.3 |
| Physical Information: 320 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This is 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. It is particularly concerned to explore the dilemmas and moral ambiguities inherent in the tensions between different policing approaches. Rather than seeking to juxtapose 'hard' and 'soft' policing styles the guiding thread of the book is the notion that policing is both pervasive and insidious. Different policing styles, whether conducted by the public police service, private security or social work agencies, are all part of a multi-agency corporate crime control industry which provides the essential context for an understanding of these different approaches. |