Everyone a Sheriff: The Democratization of Crime Prevention in America

Martin Alan Greenberg

doi:10.5771/9781793642714

Summary

In Everyone a Sheriff, the word "sheriff" serves as a metaphor for programs involving citizens in social control initiatives. Partnership between community members and their local police force is at the heart of any effective strategy aimed at reducing urban crime and insecurity. Ordinary community residents represent a vast, untapped resource in the fight against crime, disorder, and fear. The real story of citizens long association with the policing function is revealed. The book highlights include: an in-depth examination of volunteerism primarily at the law enforcement level; the importance of preparing youth and minorities for careers in policing and homeland security; the need for transitioning police and citizen volunteers from serving not only as peacekeepers, but becoming "peacemakers"; a realistic view of various pitfalls when regular and volunteer police are thrust into patterns of co-existence when fighting crime out on the street or seeking solutions to crime; numerous examples of current police-sponsored citizen academies, police cadet and junior deputy programs; histories of the invention of police and citizen-supported neighborhood crime watch programs. The only way to successfully cross the divide between the police and public is to give meaning to the phrase: "the police are the people, and the people are the police."

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Edition: 1/2021
Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4270-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4271-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 361
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1 The Invention of the Police No access Pages 1 - 42
2 Teen Involvement in Militaryand Homeland Defense No access Pages 43 - 80
3 Public Service Programs for Youth No access Pages 81 - 124
4 The Neighborhood Watch Program No access Pages 125 - 150
5 Adult Citizen andJunior Police Academies No access Pages 151 - 176
6 Volunteer Police in the United Kingdom, Former Soviet Union, and Russia No access Pages 177 - 202
7 VIPS, Civil Defense,and the Detroit Experience No access Pages 203 - 238
8 Peacemaking andCommunity Prosecution No access Pages 239 - 258
9 The Citizen’s Role inGun Violence Reduction No access Pages 259 - 270
10 The Citizen’s Role in School Safety No access Pages 271 - 290
Conclusion No access Pages 291 - 306
Appendix A No access Pages 307 - 310
Appendix B No access Pages 311 - 314
Appendix C No access Pages 315 - 318
References No access Pages 319 - 350
Index No access Pages 351 - 360
About the Author No access Pages 361 - 361