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COMMUNITY POLICING: TOWARDS THE LOCAL POLICE STATE?

01 January 1991

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COMMUNITY POLICING: TOWARDS THE LOCAL POLICE STATE?
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JOURNAL ARTICLE , User Ref = 003621
P Gordon
Critical Soc Policy, Summer 1984 (10) pp39-58

Describes the origins of community policing in schemes
developed in the 1950s and 1960s to deal with `problem'
groups such as the black community and young people. It has become
considerably more sophisticated since then and is now an
established complement to reactive policing. However, it
does not imply greater public control over the police and
is more accurately described as yet another facet of increasing
state control. 54 notes and refs

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