Introduction
| Author | Michael Rowe,Gordon Hughes |
| DOI | 10.1177/1748895807082054 |
| Published date | 01 November 2007 |
| Date | 01 November 2007 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
Criminology & Criminal Justice
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ISSN 1748–8958; Vol: 7(4): 315–316
DOI: 10.1177/1748895807082054
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Introduction
GORDON HUGHES AND MICHAEL ROWE
Cardiff University, Wales, UK and Victoria University, Wellington,
New Zealand
This Special Issue of Criminology and Criminal Justice grew out of the UK
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded seminar series entitled,
‘Rethinking Community Policing in an Age of Diversity’, which the co-editors
directed.1In this Special Issue we have selected just 5 out of the 22 papers
delivered during the course of the seminar series which we believe provide the
reader with some of the most challenging research-based insights into the com-
plex permutations and uneven revitalization of community policing in con-
temporary UK. As an important addendum to the substantive concerns of this
Special Issue, we have also included at the end of the issue an article by two
of Australia’s leading analysts of contemporary policing, Janet Chan and
David Dixon, which focuses on the lessons to be learnt 10 years on from the
Wood Commission of 1997 on police corruption and the future of the public
police as a community-oriented ‘service’ or more tellingly ‘force’ for law and
order in New South Wales, together with a review essay by Jonathan Simon
of Clifford Shearing and Jennifer Wood’s text, Imagining Security. Both pieces
make valuable contributions to the international debate and the new (and old)
governance of security in criminology.
The ESRC research papers which follow address inter alia the policing of
gypsies and travellers and marginal spaces (James), cyber-crime and the
policing of virtual communities (Wall and Williams), policing the increas-
ingly diverse ‘rural’ (Garland and Chakraborti), the challenges associated
with community and neighbourhood models of policing non-normative
sexual communities (Moran) and the mapping and deciphering of the new
policy field and its institutional architecture where multi-agency community
safety meets a re-branded neighbourhood policing (Hughes and Rowe).
Despite the important differences of subject matter, all five articles seek to
address the key themes of the ESRC seminar series, namely:
•To consider critically the implications that the increasing recognition of the
internal diversity and heterogeneity of communities has in terms of policy
agendas for crime and policing.
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