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3 - Re-inventing Policing
- from Part I - Taking Stock of Evidence-Based Policing
- Edited by David Weisburd, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and George Mason University, Virginia, Tal Jonathan-Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gali Perry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Badi Hasisi, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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- The Future of Evidence-Based Policing
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- 01 June 2023
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- 15 June 2023, pp 44-63
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In our 2011 paper on Police Science (Weisburd & Neyroud, 2011) we set our belief that a radical reformation of the role of science in policing will be necessary if policing is to become an arena of evidence-based policies. In this revised and updated version of our paper, we reinforce our argument that the advancement of science in policing is essential if police are to retain public support and legitimacy, cope with recessionary budget reductions, and deal with the myriad of problems that encompass modern police responsibilities. We outline a proposal for a new paradigm that changes the relationship between science and policing. This paradigm demands that the police adopt and advance evidence-based policy and that universities become active participants in the everyday world of police practice. But it also calls for a shift in ownership of police science from the universities to police agencies. Such ownership would facilitate the implementation of evidence-based practices and policies in policing and would change the fundamental relationship between research and practice. We add in this paper a new emphasis to our model that focuses attention to moral and ethical elements of research and practice that are an essential part of science in universities and must become a key element of EBP.
Foreword: a crisis in public policing
- Auke van Dijk, Frank Hoogewoning, Maurice Punch
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- What Matters in Policing?
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- Bristol University Press
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- 11 March 2022
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- 19 August 2015, pp xi-xii
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Crime has gone down, yet the police are in crisis. The police forces of two states studied in this book – the UK and the Netherlands – have been going through their most convulsive changes since the 1960s. The Dutch system, after decades of devolved forces, has been centralised into a single national force. In the UK, Scotland has adopted the Dutch or Nordic model of a single force, and England and Wales has decentralised and imposed a radical change in democratic oversight. All the changes have a common driver in the perception that public policing needs to be reformed to meet future challenges and to respond to past and present problems. The very fact that crime has gone down across the developed world has allowed a political stock take of the investment in policing and a reassessment of its relative contribution against other public services at a time of deep austerity. Cybercrime, people trafficking and organised crime have presented challenges to public policing to which the 20th-century model cannot respond effectively. Bounded by geography, public policing has struggled to find ways to tackle crimes without boundaries. Meanwhile, police legitimacy in their core mission has been under pressure. On the one hand, the very deterrence-based strategies – particularly stop and search – that were deployed to reduce crime in public places have created a gulf between police and young people and minority communities. On the other, there have been failures to tackle domestic violence and the sexual exploitation of children. Hence this study of police leadership is timely and insightful.
The Netherlands and the UK have shared a common approach to many policing issues for several decades. Both have sought to develop a consent-based, community-focused model. Both have wrestled with the need to balance local control of priorities with national strategic requirements within a unitary state. Both have been edging towards a more professional framework for education and ways of enhancing the contribution of research and knowledge into practice. Neither has yet been wholly successful. This book is a product of the type of partnership between academic and practitioner that is critical to that ambition. Professor Punch has long been one of the most articulate and insightful commentators on the interface between police science and police practice.
Foreword by Peter Neyroud
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- By Peter Neyroud, Chief Constable and Chief Executive National Policing Improvement Agency, UK
- Julie Ayling, Australian National University, Canberra, Peter Grabosky, Australian National University, Canberra, Clifford Shearing, University of Cape Town
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- Lengthening the Arm of the Law
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- 05 June 2012
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- 17 November 2008, pp ix-x
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I was delighted to be asked to write a foreword to this book. It is one of those really thought-provoking and original books about policing that come along all too infrequently, but when they do, they cause you to reflect hard about developments that have become, almost surreptitiously, a part of the wallpaper. The central focus of this book is money, the demand to account for it, the lack of it, and the way that police forces have sought to fill the gap between demand and supply by privatising, reducing core functions, seeking sponsorship, and entering partnerships. I recognise all of these dimensions.
My own career started at the beginning of the 1980s when a rapid expansion of British policing numbers was swiftly followed by a growing interest from the British Treasury in finding ways to hold policing to account for expenditure. Initially, this was through accounting for numbers of police officers. Over the next two decades, it evolved into full-blown managerialism, with a series of attempts to link budgets with performance data. The accompanying scope for chiefs to square the circle between inputs and demand by raising income, securing sponsorship, and entering into partnerships has changed the relationship between the police and the citizen in many, often subtle, ways.