2014/01/10 by Karen Bullock, K. Bullock, K. Sindall · 40 citations
Health Professions · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Community policing #Crime Patterns and Interventions #Criminology #Demography #Fear of crime #Geography #Homelessness and Social Issues #Law #Localism #Neighbourhood (mathematics) #Perception #Policing Practices and Perceptions #Political science #Politics #Population #Psychology #Situated #Sociology #Survey data collection
paper · doi:10.1080/10439463.2013.844130
published in Policing & Society 24(4), 385-404 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2014/01/10 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Situated within the ‘New Localism’ agenda neighbourhood policing, a contemporary form of community policing operating in England and Wales, has sought to increase citizen participation in shaping the direction of local policing. Whilst public participation has been viewed as central for the operation of community policing by its advocates, others have been much more critical about what can be achieved. Concerns have been raised that participation has been low and ‘regressive’ rather than ‘progressive’ in its effect. Using binary logistic regression models constructed from Crime Survey for England and Wales (formerly British Crime Survey) data, this study confirms that the majority of the population do not participate and demonstrates that awareness of and participation in neighbourhood policing are shaped by an interaction of factors related to demography, the life course, neighbourhood attachments, facets of social class, perceptions of crime and disorder and attitudes to the police. We conclude that while neighbourhood policing is likely to be consumed by the ‘usual suspects’, there is also evidence that neighbourhood policing does not have a wholly regressive effect.