The Politics of Community Policing: Rearranging the Power to Punish

by William Lyons

Book Overview

In this in-depth examination of community policing in Seattle, William T. Lyons, Jr. explores the complex issues associated with the establishment and operation of community policing, an increasingly popular method for organizing law enforcement in this country. Stories about community policing appeal to a nostalgic vision of traditional community life. Community policing carries with it the image of a safe community in which individual citizens and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472109537
• ISBN13: 9780472109531
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"