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Zero Tolerance Policing
Maurice Punch
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Description for Zero Tolerance Policing
Paperback. This book examines the key issues of what policing is about and who defines it by exploring the notion of zero tolerance and its application in different settings. Series: Researching Criminal Justice Series. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JKSW1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 170 x 244 x 4. Weight in Grams: 128.
What is policing about and who defines it? This book examines these key issues by exploring the notion of zero tolerance and its application in different settings. Following its introduction in New York, and the seemingly dramatic reduction in crime, zero tolerance policing was taken up in a number of other countries, including the UK and the Netherlands. This book examines that process. It argues that this policy was, in fact, nothing more than a return to old-style, crime control policing. While it did foster the swift analysis of crime patterns and more assertive policing of public places, it could ... Read more
What is policing about and who defines it? This book examines these key issues by exploring the notion of zero tolerance and its application in different settings. Following its introduction in New York, and the seemingly dramatic reduction in crime, zero tolerance policing was taken up in a number of other countries, including the UK and the Netherlands. This book examines that process. It argues that this policy was, in fact, nothing more than a return to old-style, crime control policing. While it did foster the swift analysis of crime patterns and more assertive policing of public places, it could ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
Series
Researching Criminal Justice Series
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847420558
SKU
V9781847420558
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Ref
99-15
About Maurice Punch
Maurice Punch is Visiting Professor at the Mannheim Centre for Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science and also teaches on criminological programmes at King`s College London. He has worked at universities in the UK, US and the Netherlands and has published widely on corporate crime and police corruption.
Reviews for Zero Tolerance Policing
".. an excellent overview of the zero tolerance brand, searing criticisms of this practice and enlightening observations on its adaptation in other jurisdictions. This all makes for an impresssive book." Jamie Bennett in Prison Service Journal No 182. "An incisive and crisply written critical analysis of how zero tolerance and other policing policy fads and fashions have spread from ... Read more