Widen your reading with these suggested journal articles. Links have been provided for SAGE journal articles, enabling you to access for free. You may have access to non-SAGE journal articles via your university library.

A 2007 special edition of Criminology and Criminal Justice explored a range of challenges relating to the development of community policing. All the articles in this edition also relate to themes explored in this chapter. Among the topics explored in the pieces below are the difficulties of policing diverse and complex communities, the position of minorities in rural areas, virtual online communities, and the policing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities:

Hughes, G. and Rowe, M. (2007) ‘Neighbourhood Policing and Community Safety: Researching the Instabilities of the Local Governance of Crime, Disorder and Security in Contemporary UK’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7: 317-346.

Garland, J. and Chakraborti, N. (2007) ‘“Protean Times?” Exploring the Relationships between Policing, Community and “Race” in Rural England’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7: 347-365.

Wall, D.S. and Williams, M. (2007) ‘Policing Diversity in the Digital Age: Maintaining Order in Virtual Communities’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7: 391-415.

Moran, L. (2007) ‘“Invisible Minorities”: Challenging Community and Neighbourhood Models of Policing’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 7: 417-441.

The development of community policing in the Anglo-American context, in the Pacific Rim and in the European Union is reviewed by M. Brogden, & P Nijhar in Community Policing National and International Models and Approaches (Portland, OR: Willan, 2005) who identify ten myths associated with much debate of this approach to police work. Brogden and Nijhar argue that community policing models have tended to fail when transported to developing countries that do not share the social and political context of North America in which they were developed.

Roy R. Roberg, Kenneth Novak, Gary W. Cordner’s Police and Society (Oxford University Press, 2008) provides a good overview of the foundations and administration of the police in the United States, the behaviour of officers, and a range of controversies and challenges faced in the context of policing a diverse and fragmented society. The book contains a chapter that reviews the transition toward community policing and the associated philosophy, strategy and tactics.