Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction: understanding police innovation
- Part I Community policing
- Part II Broken windows policing
- Part III Problem-oriented policing
- Part IV Pulling levers policing
- Part V Third-party policing
- 10 Advocate The case for third-party policing
- 11 Critic Third-party policing: a critical view
- Part VI Hot spots policing
- Part VII Compstat
- Part VIII Evidence-based policing
- 18 Conclusion: Police innovation and the future of policing
- Index
- References
10 - Advocate The case for third-party policing
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- 1 Introduction: understanding police innovation
- Part I Community policing
- Part II Broken windows policing
- Part III Problem-oriented policing
- Part IV Pulling levers policing
- Part V Third-party policing
- 10 Advocate The case for third-party policing
- 11 Critic Third-party policing: a critical view
- Part VI Hot spots policing
- Part VII Compstat
- Part VIII Evidence-based policing
- 18 Conclusion: Police innovation and the future of policing
- Index
- References
Summary
Third-party policing is defined as police efforts to persuade or coerce organizations or non-offending persons, such as public housing agencies, property owners, parents, health and building inspectors, and business owners to take some responsibility for preventing crime or reducing crime problems (Buerger and Mazerolle 1998: 301). In third-party policing, the police create or enhance crime control nodes in locations or situations where crime control guardianship was previously absent or non-effective. Sometimes the police use cooperative consultation with community members, parents, inspectors, and regulators to encourage and convince third parties to take on more crime control or prevention responsibility. Central, however, to third-party policing is the police use of a range of civil, criminal, and regulatory rules and laws, to engage, coerce (or force) third parties into taking some crime control responsibility. It is the regulatory and legal provisions that dictate the process for third-party intervention.
In third-party policing, laws and legal mechanisms are directed at willing or unwilling non-offending third parties, with the object of facilitating or coercing them into helping to control the behavior of offending ultimate targets. This type of policing, however, is not new. Some might argue that this is just good, proactive policing. Indeed, for many years the police have sought alternative solutions to regulate activities and solve crime problems (Eck and Spelman 1987; Goldstein 1990; Goldstein 2003).
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- Police InnovationContrasting Perspectives, pp. 191 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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