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Third-party policing is an approach to crime prevention and control involving the police partnering with organizations or individuals to prevent or reduce crime problems. It relies on available civil, criminal, or regulatory rules and laws (legal levers) that enable third parties to take responsibility, at least in part, for control of crime. This entry examines the complexities of the legislative and regulatory framework around the problem of school truancy to illustrate the range of opportunities for using legal levers within a third-party policing context.
Introduction
Third-party policing is a strategy where police collaborate with organizations or nonoffending persons to encourage them to take part responsibility for preventing crime or reducing crime problems (Buerger and Mazerolle 1998). In a third-party policing approach, the police aim to improve crime control, where previous efforts were ineffective, by creating third-party partnerships to enforce the...
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Nitschke, F., Mazerolle, L., Bennett, S. (2014). Third Party Policing and School Truancy. In: Bruinsma, G., Weisburd, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5690-2_172
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