CRIM2200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Community Policing, Crime Prevention
Document Summary
Prior to the development of modern professional policing most closely associated with the new police" in london in 1829 policing functions were often carried out by militia, watchmen or constables, without specific training or systematic organisation and management. Intended functions: crime prevention, follow legal due process, work cooperatively with their local communities. Australia policing frequently entailed con ict between the preventive community-based ideal of the new police and a militarised form of law enforcement. Policing also took on a more detached militaristic form. In many countries in the 19th and 20th centuries, the idea of police as public servants was inverted, with police focused on protection of the state and ruling classes, enforcing subservience through surveillance, torture, murder and brutality. Secretive: male-dominated, hierarchical, authoritarian largely self-directing offender-focused often violent and corrupt and generally instrumentalist rather than principled alternative public and private policing agencies.
