Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology articles from August 2005

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology archives from August 2005

Reforming police: opportunities, drivers and challenges.
August 1, 2005... A few years ago, David Bayley and Clifford Shearing (1996) argued that at the end of the 20th century we were witnessing a 'watershed' in policing, when transformations were occurring in the practices and sponsorship of policing on a scale...

Challenges and prospects for the development of inclusive plural policing in Britain: overcoming political and conceptual obstacles.
August 1, 2005... Policing involves state and nonstate agencies. In this article, we focus upon recent government-led efforts to engage the new realities of 'pluralised' or'nodal' policing in Britain. (1) Rather than focus on the content and rationale underlying...

Bureaucracy, contracts and networks: the unholy trinity and the police.
August 1, 2005... Over the past thirty years, police services in the UK and Australia have been subjected to a series of demands for change and reform. This article describes these reforms as a shift from command and control bureaucracy through markets to...

Police reform as foreign policy.
August 1, 2005... This article discusses the worldwide enterprise of assisting in the reform of police institutions in order to support democracy. It describes the current scope of activity, the changing context for this kind of work, and the key lessons, both...

Police reform in Peru.
August 1, 2005... Following a political transition, Peru launched a police reform in 2001. This study focuses on internal and external impediments to the reform. The highly transparent and democratic process won public support and the backing of rank-and-file...

The reform of policing in the Russian Federation.(Russia)
August 1, 2005... The reform of policing in the Russian Federation involves an unusual combination of challenges. These include finding the best distribution of police powers and responsibilities among three levels of government (federal, regional and local);...

Zhou Yongkang and the recent police reform in China.
August 1, 2005... This article is an attempt to understand the conflicting imperatives of police reform and the underlying constraints affecting it in a one-party state. When China entered the 21st century, police abuse of powers was a conspicuous national...

Trotsky in blue: permanent policing reform.
August 1, 2005... The subject of this article is police reform in North America. The article is divided in two parts. The first part reviews the recent past with respect to reforming the police in Canada. I examine the case of the reform of the Montreal police,...

Paradigm lost: the Dutch dilemma.
August 1, 2005... In the 1970s the Dutch police developed a paradigm of policing that married ideas from the United States on community-oriented policing to a strongly social and democratic role for the police in society. From the early 1990s there was a gradual...