ISSUES OF STYLE (FROM ALTERNATIVE POLICING STYLES: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES, P 231-256, 1993, MARK FINDLAY AND UGLJESA ZVEKIC, EDS. -- SEE NCJ-146911)

• NCJ Number: 146925
• Author(s): M Findlay; U Zvekic
• Date Published: 1993
• Length: 26 pages
• Sale Source: Kluwer Law International
• Publication Type: Research (Theoretical)
• Language: English
• Country: Italy

Annotation

Based on an analysis of policing style in their historical, cultural, and situational contexts, this paper identifies and explains structural themes and groupings of policing styles.

Abstract

One structural factor in policing style is the nature and extent of participation in policing. The magnitude of citizen and community participation in social control indicates the extent to which policing style involves other than state employees. Another structural factor in policing style is organization. The organizational form of a policing style depends primarily on its relationship with the state and anticipated or actual police functions. Other factors in police style are the use of force, jurisdiction, client focus, functions, and authority and decisionmaking. Some issues of function pertain to the use of repression, crime- prevention activities, attention to political and moral issues, conflict resolution, punishment, and social services. Policing styles may also be grouped according to the following characteristics: covert policing, subcontracted policing, co-optive policing, compulsory policing, consensual/"blind eye" policing, substitutory policing, privatized policing, and confrontational policing.