Citizens, Cops, and Power
Recognizing the Limits of Community
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Terrain of Community
2. The Political Status of Community
3. Elusive Legitimacy: Subservient, Separate, or Generative?
4. "Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid": On the Resistance to Community Policing
5. "It Is so Difficult": The Complicated Pathways of Police-Community Relations
6. The Unbearable Lightness of Community
Notes
Index
Introduction
1. The Terrain of Community
2. The Political Status of Community
3. Elusive Legitimacy: Subservient, Separate, or Generative?
4. "Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid": On the Resistance to Community Policing
5. "It Is so Difficult": The Complicated Pathways of Police-Community Relations
6. The Unbearable Lightness of Community
Notes
Index
Review Quotes
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“An impressive critique of community policing . . . that raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the widely accepted practice.”
Laura Huey | Theoretical Criminology
"’ It is a mistake to believe that community can bear the political weight that projects like community policing place upon it’ . . . . It is this thesis that makes the book both theoretically interesting and useful, particularly for those intrested in issues of community governance and locally based crime control initiatives. Overall, this book represents a fresh and radical departure."
Nicholas Blomley | Annals--Association for American Geographers
"This is a fine book. It is accessible and very well written. . . . I appreciated the way Herbert again pried open the black box of the state, offering us a careful and not unsympathetic reading of police culture. Although written for a wider audience, geographers interested in law and policing, political theory, and the enduring romance of community will find it worthwhile."
Michelle Livermore | Social Development Issues
"This book is well written and well organized. . . . The book’s conclusion provides sobering evidence for the limitations of the community policing approach."
Sudhir Venkatesh | American Journal of Sociology
"Herbert’s book is a political sociological analysis of the potential of deliberative democratic action at the local level. . . . [It] will remain the standard for studies of community policing for years to come."
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