CRM 2310 Lecture Notes - Broken Windows Theory, Community Policing, Crime Prevention

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2310
• Professor: Kate Fletcher

Document Summary

Police as a tool for the community: community policing with crime as a social problem. : police officers working in conjunction with the community to deal. Is what we are doing in the name of community policing actually community policing: according to one author we are doing broken windows theory policing and calling in cp, the idea of community has been commodified. Discretionary power that will intentionally leave you open to corruption: true community policing is the policing that will have a significant emphasis on discretion and order maintenance, pre- 1920s. The reform era: professional model police as crime fighters. : one of the founders of the fbi. Policing did not represent a: edgar hoover profession and people"s perceptions of police officers were usually negative ones. Started to initiate emphasis on professionalizing this job and changing the perception of police by the public.