HARD COP, SOFT COP: DILEMMAS AND DEBATES IN CONTEMPORARY POLICING: ED. BY ROGER HOPKINS BURKE

This is a book about policing styles in the broadest sense, looking at zero tolerance policing at one extreme and 'softer' approaches to policing at the other. It is particularly concerned to explore the dilemmas and moral ambiguities inherent in the tensions between different policing approaches. Rather than seeking to juxtapose 'hard' and 'soft' policing styles the guiding thread of the book is the notion that policing is both pervasive and insidious. Different policing styles, whether conducted by the public police service, private security or social work agencies, are all part of a multi-a. Read more... Abstract: This is a book about policing styles in the broadest sense, looking at zero tolerance policing at one extreme and 'softer' approaches to policing at the other. It is particularly concerned to explore the dilemmas and moral ambiguities inherent in the tensions between different policing approaches. Rather than seeking to juxtapose 'hard' and 'soft' policing styles the guiding thread of the book is the notion that policing is both pervasive and insidious. Different policing styles, whether conducted by the public police service, private security or social work agencies, are all part of a multi-a The 16 chapters of this book examine policing styles and their effects in the context of and in response to the characteristics and threats of contemporary societies, with attention to developments in the United Kingdom and some other Western countries. The chapter focuses on both the styles and pervasiveness of modern policing in culturally diverse societies faced with significant security threats. The policing styles contrasted are "hard" policing, which is exemplified by the "zero tolerance" policing approach made popular by Mayor Giuliani in New York City in the mid-1990's, and "soft" policing, as illustrated under the paradigms of community policing and restorative justice. These policing styles coexist under an "umbrella" of multiagency social control that encompasses the public police, private police, and social service agencies. The chapters of this book discuss these issues under three major sections. The first section contains six chapters that address "zero tolerance" in New York City, the policing of incivilities in Germany, the policing of socially isolated minority communities in the United Kingdom, the policing of British Asian communities, "hard" policing under current British probation policies, and the "soft" approach of private policing in Great Britain. The second section on the policing of contemporary offenses discusses policing "crackdowns," a proactive approach to theft offenses, stalking, financial crime, and police involvement in rehabilitative probation programs. The four chapters of the concluding section consider the operation of current policing styles within liberal democracies and how current threats to democratic nations are creating a conflict between citizens' desires for collective security and the preservation of accustomed civil liberties and human rights Content: Cover Hard Cop, Soft Cop: Dilemmas and debates in contemporary policing Copyright Contents List of contributors Chapter 1 Introduction: policing contemporary society Part 1 Policing Contemporary Communities Chapter 2 Zero tolerance in New York City: hard questions for a get-tough policy Chapter 3 Policing incivilities in Germany Chapter 4 Over-policing and under-policing social exclusion Chapter 5 Policing British Asian communities Chapter 6 Discipline and flourish: probation and the new correctionalism. Chapter 7 'Softly, softly', private security and the policing of corporate spacePart 2 Policing Contemporary Offences Chapter 8 Using crackdowns constructively in crime reduction Chapter 9 Tackling the roots of theft: reducing tolerance toward stolen goods markets Chapter 10 Stalking the stalker: a review of policing strategies Chapter 11 Policing financial crime: the Financial Services Authority and the myth of the 'duped investor' Chapter 12 Hard coating, soft centre? The role of the police in Dordrecht offender rehabilitation programmes. Part 3 Democracy, Accountability and Human RightsChapter 13 What's law got to do with it? Some reflections on the police in light of developments in New York City Chapter 14 Policing and the Human Rights Act 1998 Chapter 15 Human rights v. communit rights: the case of the Anti-Social Behaviour Order Chapter 16 Conclusion: policing contemporary society revisited Bibliography Index. This is a book about policing styles in the broadest sense, looking at zero tolerance policing at one extreme and 'softer' approaches to policing at the other. It is particularly concerned to explore the dilemmas and moral ambiguities inherent in the tensions between different policing approaches. Rather than seeking to juxtapose 'hard' and 'soft' policing styles the guiding thread of the book is the notion that policing is both pervasive and insidious. Different policing styles, whether conducted by the public police service, private security or social work agencies, are all part of a multi-agency corporate crime control industry which provides the essential context for an understanding of these different approaches.