Prisoner Reentry and Community Policing: Strategies for Enhancing Public Safety: Reentry Roundtable Meeting The Urban Institute Washington, DC May 12-13, 2004

2004 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Urban Institute

Conceptualizing the Personal Touch: Experiential Knowledge and Gendered Strategies in Community Supervision Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Prisoner Reentry ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Community Supervision ◽  
Depth Interviews

Tasked with a fractured institutional mandate of ensuring public safety while facilitating the rehabilitation of their criminalized clients, community supervision workers exercise a considerable amount of discretion in how to achieve these goals. Yet much remains unknown about these workers’ strategies for doing so, which are informed by experiential knowledge and social identities—what I call the “personal touch.” Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with California state parole agents and county probation officers as part of a larger ethnographic inquiry of prisoner reentry, I apply a feminist lens to analyze how workers leverage personal aspects of themselves that they value to manage the impossibilities of their work. My findings show how workers employ a personal touch to connect with clients in meaningful ways, but also how these approaches are built on normative assumptions about gender.

scholarly journals COMMUNITY POLICING: WHAT DOES THE MODEL IMPLEMENTED IN A CITY IN THE AGRESTE OF ALAGOAS REVEAL ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY?

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-91
Author(s):  
Djaíse Rodrigues Cabral ◽  
José Rodolfo Tenório Lima ◽  
Milka Alves Correia Barbosa ◽  
Lyzandra Marthyelly Cavalcante Silva
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Field Research ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Police Station ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The City

The research addresses the community policing developed at the Brisa do Lago Police Base, located in the city of Arapiraca - Alagoas. Assuming that public safety is a responsibility of all (State and society), Community Policing emerges as a philosophy in which the population and the police work together to identify and seek solutions to solve community problems, with essentially preventive actions. The main objective of the study was to describe how community policing was developed by the Brisa do Lago Police Station in the period from 2012 to 2016. For this purpose, case study was adopted as a method and data was collected using an instrument for a field research which included the visits to the 3rd Military Police Battalion, to the Arapiraca City Hall and to the Brisa do Lago Set, as well as interviews with residents, police officers and community leaders who interacted directly and indirectly at the Base. As the results it was evidenced that the low effective to cover the entire area of the city of Arapiraca was determinant for the closure of the Base, as also the high turnover of police officers and the non-compliance with the guidelines established by the community policing model. Regarding community policing, it was possible to observe that its philosophy was not effectively implemented in that community, being essential a preparation of all the agents involved in this process.

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