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-agency corporate crime control industry which provides the essential context for an understanding of these different approaches.
1. Introduction: policing contemporary society Part 1: Policing Contemporary Communities 2. Zero tolerance in New York City: hard questions for a get-tough policy 3. Policing incivilities in Germany 4. Over-policing and under-policing social exclusion 5. Policing British Asian communities 6. Discipline and flourish: probation and the new correctionalism 7. 'Softly, softly', private security and the policing of corporate space Part 2: Policing Contemporary Offences 8. Using crackdowns constructively in crime reduction 9. Tackling the roots of theft: reducing tolerance toward stolen goods markets 10. Stalking the stalker: a review of policing strategies 11. Policing financial crime: the Financial Services Authority and the myth of the 'duped investor' 12. Hard coating, soft centre? The role of the police in Dordrecht offender rehabilitation programmes Part 3: Democracy, Accountability and Human Rights 13. What's law got to do with it? Some reflections on the police in light of developments in New York City 14. Policing and the Human Rights Act 1998 15. Human rights v. community rights: the case of the Anti- Social Behaviour Order 16. Conclusion: policing contemporary society revisited
