Full Description
Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order and Community brings together an impressive array of scholars and analysts to examine the impact of the development of crime control strategies on problems of police corruption and abuse. The text provides an historical overview of the development of legal control of the police, and examines the challenges that recent innovations, such as community or problem oriented policing present to the traditional, historical mechanisms for maintaining control of the police. Additionally, a comparative perspective is featured that draws upon the experiences of the Gorbachev era in the Soviet Union as well as on the history of European law enforcement over the last century. This book is instrumental for encouraging discussion and debate of police innovation and its impact on the ability of society to control the police abuse. In light of the Los Angeles riots of the Spring of 1992, scholars, practitioners, and students of crime prevention studies, criminology, and psychology will find this volume timely, topical, and provocative.
Contents
I Introduction.- 1. Raising Questions of Law and Order.- II The Development of Legal Control of the Police.- 2. Justice Without Trial.- 3. Historical Roots of the Legal Control of Police Behavior.- III Changing Trends in Police Innovation: Toward Community-Based Policies of Crime Control.- 4. Alternative Futures for Policing.- 5. Community Policing and the Rule of Law.- 6. The Challenge of Reinventing Police and Community.- IV Problems of Law, Order, and Community in Comparative Context.- 7. The Soviet Police and the Rule of Law.- 8. Law Enforcement Innovation and the Rule of Law: Comparative and Historical Perspectives.- V Crime Control and Police Control: Future Trends and Problems.- 9. Why Crime Control is Not Reactionary.- 10. Justice Without Trial Revisited.- Author Index.
