Police Innovation and Control of the Police

Police Innovation and Control of the Police: Problems of Law, Order and Community brings together an impressive array of scholars and analysts to examine the impact of the development of crime control strategies on problems of police corruption and abuse. The text provides an historical overview of the development of legal control of the police, and examines the challenges that recent innovations, such as community or problem oriented policing present to the traditional, historical mechanisms for maintaining control of the police. Additionally, a comparative perspective is featured that draws upon the experiences of the Gorbachev era in the Soviet Union as well as on the history of European law enforcement over the last century. This book is instrumental for encouraging discussion and debate of police innovation and its impact on the ability of society to control the police abuse. In light of the Los Angeles riots of the Spring of 1992, scholars, practitioners, and students of crime prevention studies, criminology, and psychology will find this volume timely, topical, and provocative.

I Introduction.- 1. Raising Questions of Law and Order.- II The Development of Legal Control of the Police.- 2. Justice Without Trial.- Law and Order: The Source of the Dilemma.- Conceptions and Applications: The Dilemma Complicated.- The Seclusion of Administration: The Dilemma's Setting.- Law as an Enterprise.- Law Enforcement in Democratic Society.- 3. Historical Roots of the Legal Control of Police Behavior.- The Prehistory of Legal Control: American Policing to 1960.- The Watershed: From the Mid-1950s to the Mid-1960s.- The Future of Legal Control: Alternative Scenarios.- The Conditions of Successful Legal Control.- Conclusions.- III Changing Trends in Police Innovation: Toward Community-Based Policies of Crime Control.- 4. Alternative Futures for Policing.- Changes in Policing.- The Rise of Problem-Oriented Policing and Community Policing.- Consequences of Community Policing.- Consequences of Problem-Oriented Policing.- Conclusions.- 5. Community Policing and the Rule of Law.- Community Policing, Accountability, and Compliance.- A Community Policing Compatible With the Rule of Law.- The Risks of an Expanded Community Role.- Conclusions.- 6. The Challenge of Reinventing Police and Community.- The Background.- Problems of Community and Police Identity.- IV Problems of Law, Order, and Community in Comparative Context.- 7. The Soviet Police and the Rule of Law.- The Rule of Law: Comparative Perspectives.- Sources.- History of Soviet Policing.- The Structure of the Militsiia.- Style and Method of Operation.- Conclusion.- 8. Law Enforcement Innovation and the Rule of Law: Comparative and Historical Perspectives.- Comparative and Historical Perspectives.- Community Policing: Progress or Regress.- Innovations in Prosecution.- Conclusion.- V Crime Control and Police Control: Future Trends and Problems.- 9. Why Crime Control is Not Reactionary.- The Intellectual Assault on Crime Control.- Flaws in the Anti-Crime Control Literature.- A New Model of Crime Control Values.- 10. Justice Without Trial Revisited.- Drugs and Crime.- Drugs and Procedural Justice.- Police Professionalism and Bureaucratic Control.- The Limits of Law Enforcement.- Conclusion.- Author Index.