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Community Policing in Support of Social Cohesion

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Community Policing has a significant role in mediating and/or moderating interrelatedness of crime and collective (dis)organisation. This chapter discusses concepts of community cohesion, integration and resilience as well as the role of (in)formal social control in determining the level of community crime rates and safety. Special attention is given to the factors that suppress and promote community cohesion, the general overview of the efficacy of Community Policing programs and how they should be improved in order to more strongly support community cohesion.

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    Sampson and Cohen (1988) found that robust arrests for disorderly conduct and drunk driving had a deterrent effect on an unrelated crime—robbery.

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  1. Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia

    Ines Sučić

  2. Croatian Police Academy, Zagreb, Croatia

    Ruža Karlović

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Sučić, I., Karlović, R. (2017). Community Policing in Support of Social Cohesion. In: Bayerl, P., Karlović, R., Akhgar, B., Markarian, G. (eds) Community Policing - A European Perspective. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53396-4_2

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