International Perspectives on Community Policing and Crime Prevention

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Steven P Lab is Professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Program at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices and Evaluations, 4th ed. (Anderson Pub.), Juvenile Justice, 3rd ed. (with John Whitehead, Anderson Pub.) and Victimology: An Introduction, 3rd ed. (with William Doerner, Anderson Pub.), as well as numerous articles. Dr. Lab served as a Visiting Professor at Keele University in the United Kingdom during the time of the Fifth International Police Executive Symposium in The Hague.

Dilip K. Das is a professor at State University of New York (Plattsburgh). An author of several books and numerous articles, Dr. Das has been organizing annual symposia since 1994 as the Founder/President of the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES). He has also been a coauthor of the symposia-related books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, which is an official publication of the IPES.

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The concept of community policing is spreading across the globe. Police agencies, whether in developed nations or in developing ones, are attempting to reach out to citizens. Unfortunately, the effectiveness of crime prevention through community policing is not well established. Programs that work well in a particular community are not easily replicated and successful strategies can be copied only after taking into account the concerns, structure, and organization of each community. This form of policing requires creativity, resources, and special skills for which police officers need special training.

The chapters in this book provide insight to community policing and crime prevention as they appear in countries around the world. Various chapters deal with countries, which have well established formal, professional police forces; are in transition from colonial status to independence; or are emerging democracies faced with the demands associated with major political and social change. What ties all of these efforts together is the recognition that the public needs to be involved in preventing crime.

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Contributors from 13 different countries, including those with established professional police forces, countries in transition from colonial status to independence, and countries emerging into democracy, give a history of efforts in community policing and crime prevention in their countries and disc

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Community Policing and Crime Prevention, Steven P. Lab.

PART I. 1. Community Policing as Crime Prevention in the United States, Steven P. Lab.
2. Crime Prevention: A Community Policing Approach, Maximilan Edelbacher.
3. Community Policing in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police: From Preventive Policing to a National Strategy in Crime Prevention, R.J. Laing and L.T. Hickman.
4. The Crime Prevention Continuum: A Community Policing Perspective on Crime Prevention in Canada, John Lindsay.
5. Crime Prevention in the Netherlands: A Community Policing Approach, Alexis A. Aronowitz.
6. Some Thoughts on the Relationship Between Crime Prevention and Policing in Contemporary Australia, Rick Sarre.

PART II. 7. Crime Prevention: The Community Policing Approach in Israel, Ruth Geva.
8. A Community Policing Approach to Crime Prevention: The Case of India, R.K. Raghavan and A. Shiva Sankar.
9. The Kenyan Perspective on Community Policing and Crime Prevention, Nary M. Mwangangi.
10. Crime Prevention in Nigeria: Pre-Colonial and Post-Colonial Dimensions, Obi N.I. Ebbe.

PART III. 11. Crime Prevention in Yugoslavia, Bransilav Simonovic and Miroslav Radovanovic.
12. Hungarian National Report on Crime Prevention: A Community Policing Approach, Ferenc Bánfi and Irene Sárk0zi.
13. Crime Prevention: A Community Policing Approach in Russia, Yakov Gilinskiy.

PART IV. 14. Prevention Policies and Civic Morals in Mexico, Walter Beller Taboado.
15. Crime Prevention in China: A Community Policing Approach, Kam C. Wong.
16. World Perspective Crime Prevention: A Community Policing Approach, Peter C. Kratcoski, Dilip K. Das and Arvind Verma.
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