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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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Results for police-citizens interactions
2 results foundAuthor: Strategies for Youth Title: If Not Now, When? A Survey of Juvenile Justice Training in America’s Police Academies Summary: Over the past decade, police have become a ubiquitous presence in the lives of many youths, particularly those living in disadvantaged communities. They are now routinely deployed in public schools. As social and mental health services have been scaled back, police are frequently the first responders in domestic disputes involving juveniles. Yet, police confronting youths in a variety of deeply challenging situations and settings receive surprisingly little training about adolescent psychology and behavior. Strategies for Youth (SFY), an organization founded in 2010 with the express aim of improving interactions between youths and police, conducted a national, comprehensive survey on the state of training about juveniles available in police academies. The results indicate that the curriculum for juvenile justice in police academies is limited both in scope of subject matter and in the time spent reviewing it. SFY’s findings confirm that most police officers who interact frequently with juveniles are not benefiting from the wealth of new scientific research available about adolescent brain development. Nor are police provided information on promising and best practices for interacting with teens that stem from our growing understanding of how teenagers’ brains differ from those of adults. Details: Cambridge, MA: Strategies for Youth, 2013. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: accessed February 7, 2013 at: http://strategiesforyouth.org/sfysite/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SFYReport_02-2013.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://strategiesforyouth.org/sfysite/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/SFYReport_02-2013.pdf Shelf Number: 127539 Keywords: Police-Citizens InteractionsPolice-Juveniles InteractionsPolicing Training (U.S.) |
Author: Cross, Charlotte Title: Community Policing through Local Collective Action in Tanzania: Sungusungu to Ulinzi Shirikishi Summary: Community policing (polisi jamii) was officially introduced in Tanzania in 2006 as part of an ongoing police reform programme. In addition to attempting to improve communication between police and the public, the police have promoted ulinzi shirikishi (participatory security), whereby citizens are encouraged to form neighbourhood policing institutions to prevent and detect crime. This thesis presents the findings of research conducted in the city of Mwanza that explored the extent to which community policing has improved residents' perceptions of local security and constitutes a form of policing which is responsive, accountable and sustainable. Whilst ulinzi shirikishi is widely credited with having improved local safety, it has proved difficult to sustain collective action through community policing and the costs and benefits of participation have been unequally distributed across 'communities'. These outcomes should be understood in terms of the context of how local development is organised and understood in Tanzania. Firstly, existing local governance institutions lack transparency and meaningful accountability mechanisms and are highly dependent upon personal preferences and capacity. Secondly, local development is politicised and liable to become subject to inter-party competition. Thirdly, historical understandings of 'participation' in Tanzania tend to emphasise obligation and material contributions rather than popular influence over initiatives, however this is increasingly being contested in today's multiparty context. The apparent shortcomings of community policing are not necessarily inconsistent with police objectives for the reform, which often prioritise cost-effective crime prevention rather than the reorientation and 'democratisation' of policing envisaged by advocates of community policing. Details: Brighton, UK: University of Sussex, 2013. 267p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed February 2, 2016 at: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/47166/1/Cross._Charlotte.pdf Year: 2013 Country: Tanzania URL: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/47166/1/Cross._Charlotte.pdf Shelf Number: 137737 Keywords: Community PolicingPolice LegitimacyPolice ReformPolice-Citizens Interactions |