Book Review: Problem-Oriented Policing and Partnerships
| Published date | 01 September 2007 |
| Date | 01 September 2007 |
| DOI | 10.1350/ijps.2007.9.3.299 |
| Author | Ian K. McKenzie |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
Book review
Problem-Oriented Policing and
Partnerships
by Karen Bullock, Rosie Erol and Nick Tilley
(Willan Publishing, Cullompton; 2006; pp. 222; ISBN 1-84392-139-1; £26.00 (hardback))
Crime Science Series (Series editor: Gloria Laycock, Jill Dando Institute, University College
London)
In the beginning there was Policing by
worst possible way; a unitary organisation
Objectives (Lubans & Edgar, 1979), a man-
with its fingers in the pies of society at
agement tool set in the behaviourist/
every level, seeking to solve, relieve — or
behavioural mould which (in simplest
at least reduce — the negative social under-
terms) required the examination of a given
pinnings (the causes of crime) which lead
policing quandary, the analysis of it in as
to the out-of-control and uncontrolled
fine a detail as possible and the setting of
behaviour of what is largely an underclass.
behaviourally defined objectives which —
I do not mean that criminals and social
when completed — would bring the core
misfits are solely to blame for their behavi-
problem, or perhaps some subset of it,
our (although a bit of acceptance of per-
under control.
sonal culpability would often not come
Policing by objectives was a practice
amiss), rather that the police might be
adapted from the notion of Management by
better employed ‘preventing crime’ by such
Objectives and was but one of ‘a host of
efforts as ‘target hardening’, visible (and
radical innovations, based on fashionable
frequent) police presence and the making of
theories that had been quietly discarded just
arrests. However, the die is firmly cast and
before the [police] service heard about
social service policing is the entrenched
them’ (Judge, 2005, p. 11).
norm.
Problem-oriented policing is the latest in
Allowing that is true, this book seeks,
the line of intellectual efforts to try to bring
order to what is, by its very nature, a
nevertheless,...
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