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Citizen Participation In Policing: The Social Control Of A Social Control Agency
Abstract
Police agencies are the prototype for formal social control mechanisms. However, their social control role is complicated by the fact that their mandate comes from the very constituents they are charged with controlling. The impetus of the "maximum feasible participation" written into the 1964 anti-poverty legislation, has produced various attempts to reconcile this paradox. This paper examines various forms of citizen participation in policing; dilemmas of implementing such efforts; and community organizing lessons learned from the "War-on Poverty." These issues combined with national developments and trends are used in developing proposals for successful programs for citizen participation in policing.
Journal
(January/April 1978)
vol7
no1
pages15-24
Categories
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Citizen/Political Nonprofits
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Citizen Participation and Involvement
