Hard Cop, Soft Cop

This is a book about policing styles in the broadest sense, looking at zero tolerance policing at one extreme and 'softer' approaches to policing at the other. It is particularly concerned to explore the dilemmas and moral ambiguities inherent in the tensions between different policing approaches. Rather than seeking to juxtapose 'hard' and 'soft' policing styles the guiding thread of the book is the notion that policing is both pervasive and insidious. Different policing styles, whether conducted by the public police service, private security or social work agencies, are all part of a multi-a.

Cover; Hard Cop, Soft Cop: Dilemmas and debates in contemporary policing; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction: policing contemporary society; Part 1 Policing Contemporary Communities; Chapter 2 Zero tolerance in New York City: hard questions for a get-tough policy; Chapter 3 Policing incivilities in Germany; Chapter 4 Over-policing and under-policing social exclusion; Chapter 5 Policing British Asian communities; Chapter 6 Discipline and flourish: probation and the new correctionalism.

Chapter 7 'Softly, softly', private security and the policing of corporate spacePart 2 Policing Contemporary Offences; Chapter 8 Using crackdowns constructively in crime reduction; Chapter 9 Tackling the roots of theft: reducing tolerance toward stolen goods markets; Chapter 10 Stalking the stalker: a review of policing strategies; Chapter 11 Policing financial crime: the Financial Services Authority and the myth of the 'duped investor'; Chapter 12 Hard coating, soft centre? The role of the police in Dordrecht offender rehabilitation programmes.

Part 3 Democracy, Accountability and Human RightsChapter 13 What's law got to do with it? Some reflections on the police in …