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Policing for London : report of an independent study funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation / Marian FitzGerald ... [and others]
Van Pelt Library HV8196.L6 P65 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Service.
- Great Britain.
- Police--England--London.
- Police.
- Police-community relations--England--London.
- Police-community relations.
- Police--England--London--Public opinion.
- Public opinion--England--London.
- Public opinion.
- England--London.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 166 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cullompton, Devon, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2002.
- Contents:
- 2 The Policing Environment 8
- Demographic trends 8
- Technology and consumption 12
- Demands on the police 13
- Crime, disorder and other 'police business' 15
- Institutional change 18
- Part II The Research Findings
- 3 Public Concerns, Needs and Wants 29
- Measuring concerns and priorities about crime and disorder 29
- Anxieties about crime and disorder 30
- Priority problems 38
- Policing solutions 41
- 4 Londoners' Experience of the Police 49
- Contact as police 'users' 50
- Police-initiated contacts in London 54
- Who do the police target as suspects? 59
- Vicarious experience 63
- 5 Reactions to Police Contact 65
- Satisfaction amongst victims of crime 65
- Ratings of contact as suspect 70
- Visiting the police station 71
- Sources of serious annoyance 72
- Complaints against the police 74
- 6 Confidence in the Police 77
- Measuring confidence in the police 77
- Sources of information about the police 77
- The police and other occupational groups 79
- Trends in ratings of effectiveness over time 80
- Who thinks the police do a good job? 82
- Views on fairness and integrity 84
- Willingness to help the police 88
- Considering joining the police 89
- 7 Group Perceptions and Area Differences 92
- Focus groups with the public 92
- Focus groups and interviews with the police 94
- 8 External Constraints on Responsive Policing 105
- Does the MPS have more work to do than previously? 105
- Have MPS resources shrunk? 108
- Do priorities imposed on the MPS impede responsive policing? 110
- Growing public expectations 112
- Conflicting demands 113
- 9 Internal Organisation and Responsive Policing 115
- Centralised decision-making 115
- Impact of quantitative performance management 118
- Specialisation and diffusion of responsibility 118
- Poor management 121
- Staff morale 123
- The same old story? 126
- Change and continuity over 20 years 129
- Delivering more responsive policing: the issues 131
- Delivering more responsive policing: the mechanisms 137
- Appendix 1 The Advisory Group 149
- Appendix 2 Methodology 150
- Appendix 3 Logistic and Ordinal Regression Models 158.
- Notes:
- "South Bank University, London; LSE"--Cover.
- A study by researchers from the London School of Economics and South Bank University.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-166).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 190324093X
- OCLC:
- 48930892
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