The Fragmentation of Policing in American Cities: Toward an Ecological Theory of Police-Citizen Relations

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Sung provides a "place-oriented" theory of policing to guide strategies for crime control and problem-oriented policing. He contends that community policing is a product of power relations among communities. Sung also explores:; how police and citizens interact with each other in stratified and residentially segregated communities; how services are delivered by police; how citizens respond to those charged with protecting them and enforcing the law Illuminating the police-neighborhood dynamic and advancing a clear hypothesis for explaining and predicting changes in police behavior, this book provides a conceptual platform for public policy debate, planning, and evaluation of police, public safety, and democratic governance.

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"This book is an elegant antidote to the prevailing notion that there are technical and managerial solutions under the control of the police to crime and the improvement of police-public relation. Sung shows persuasively that police are not autonomous social actors, but are constrained by the political/social/economic structures of the communities in which. Moreover, that their customary patterns of interaction with communities shape the possibilities for their own reform. In short, making the police more effective as well as more humane requires reform of more than the police"-David H. Bayley Distinguished Professor School of Criminal Justice State University of New York at Albany
[p]rovides a nice sociological understanding of the migration to and from various segments of American communities and provides the context of the crime issue in this broader, historical perspective.-Criminal Justice Review
"provides a nice sociological understanding of the migration to and from various segments of American communities and provides the context of the crime issue in this broader, historical perspective."-Criminal Justice Review
"[p]rovides a nice sociological understanding of the migration to and from various segments of American communities and provides the context of the crime issue in this broader, historical perspective."-Criminal Justice Review

Author Bio

HUNG-EN SUNG is the Research Director for the Drug Treatment Alternative-to-Prison program at the Kings County District Attorney's Office in New York.