Lecture on Adaptation and Punitive Control in Policing

Vocabulary flashcards based on lecture notes about adaptation and punitive control in policing.

Adaptation in Policing

Strategies of crime control involving new management styles, commercialization of justice, and increased community involvement in safety and prevention.

Crime Management System

A system aimed at sustaining value for money in the police service, focusing on community safety.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Metrics used to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of policing objectives.

Commercialization of Justice

The application of business management methods to the criminal justice system, including privatization of services.

Responsibilisation

The growing infrastructure of community safety and crime prevention through partnerships between governmental bodies, commercial agencies, and the community sector.

Crime Management Units

New organizational forms within policing focused on managing crime.

Crime Screening

Rationing police resources, which can also lead to defining deviance down.

harnessing support

special constabulary, community self policing (e.g. police volunteers, civilian patrols, neighborhood watch etc)

Austerity Policing

The approach of 'doing more with less,' often involving collaboration between forces and other criminal justice agencies.

Community Safety Partnerships

Multi-agency partnerships focused on crime prevention and community policing, as outlined in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

Punitive segregation

A policing approach characterized by tough rhetoric, harsher sentencing, and focus on incapacitation of dangerous/high risk offenders

Expressive Responses

•Governments are in ‘denial’ about limitations to state

power to control crime

•Politicization of crime control

•‘Acting out’: Tough political rhetoric/soundbites & emotional tone

•Privileging of ‘public opinion’ (over that of experts)

populism and priviliging ‘ public opinion’

Introduction of elected Police and Crime

Commissioners in 2012– power to the people?

Zero Tolerance Policing

A policing strategy, often deployed rhetorically, that emphasizes strict enforcement of laws, even for minor infractions.

Politicization of Policing

The growing ideological conflict and political attention given to policing, especially prominent in elections.

Culture of Control

The increasing influence of managerialism, privatization, and civil society involvement in policing.