scholarly journals Mobilizing and engaging your community to reduce victimization and reinvest police resources

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
J.V.N. (Vince) Hawkes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Community Members ◽  
New Model ◽  
Police Services ◽  
Human Services Agencies

The Ontario government released its most recent Ontario Mobilization & Engagement Model for Community Policing (OMEM) in 2010, but many police services in the province are just now starting to move toward implementation. OMEM emphasizes having all community members and human services agencies working with the police to keep neighbourhoods safer, more secure, and healthier. The most appropriate service takes the lead in any community safety and wellbeing initiative. The new model requires considerable cultural change from all participants to be successful. This article outlines the Ontario Provincial Police efforts to implement OMEM and some of its early successes and ongoing challenges.

COMMUNITY POLICING IN BORDER COMMUNITIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Inese Boluža
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Security Sector Reform ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Reform Initiatives ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Police Services ◽  
Police Organizations ◽  
Border Communities ◽  
Definition Of

Community orientated policing is widely held as the relatively new and interesting philosophy for Latvian policing. For the fifteen years the community policing movement has been gaining momentum acquiring the support of politicians, reformers, and the society. Unfortunately there are problems that continually plague the philosophy of community policing. Some of the largest obstacles that police organizations face with the community policing program are the initial implementation and understanding of community policing, the ability to change and adapt to the new format of policing, and the acceptance.As part  reform programs, State police of Latvia seek to introduce community policing. There is no clear or consistent definition of what constitutes a community policing programme. However, most community policing initiatives aim to improve relations between the police and residents, engage community members or civic organizations in evaluation of police services, and expand information sharing. Community policing control activities are not always linked to police reform initiatives; somestimes the two activities occur simultaneously in isolation on each other. There have been more increasing attempts to link or find synergies between control initiatives and realised programs, especially (community-based) weapons collection programs and disarmament and demobilization projects. Policing reform has been a rather neglected area of security sector reform that has been addressed on an ad hoc basis. Some analysts see the need to reduce the number of firearms in circulation as a way to improve public security, and thus training in the management of safeguarding police stockpiles, keeping accurate inventories of weapons and appropriate weapons handling need to be reinforced.Public safety cannot be taken for granted. It can only be achieved not only through the professionalism of our finest, but through successful collaboration with their neighboring counterparts as well. They all deserve our respect and gratitude, and not calumny and frivolous criticisms.

Change and Continuity, Practice and Memory: Native American Persistence in Colonial New England

2009 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen W. Silliman
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
New England ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cultural Persistence ◽  
Colonial New England ◽  
Eastern Pequot

The archaeological study of Native Americans during colonial periods in North America has centered largely on assessing the nature of cultural change and continuity through material culture. Although a valuable approach, it has been hindered by focusing too much on the dichotomies of change and continuity, rather than on their interrelationship, by relying on uncritical cultural categories of artifacts and by not recognizing the role of practice and memory in identity and cultural persistence. Ongoing archaeological research on the Eastern Pequot reservation in Connecticut, which was created in 1683 and has been inhabited continuously since then by Eastern Pequot community members, permits a different view of the nature of change and continuity. Three reservation sites spanning the period between ca. 1740 and 1840 accentuate the scale and temporality of social memory and the relationships between practice and materiality. Although the reservation sites show change when compared to the "precontact baseline," they show remarkable continuity during the reservation period. The resulting interpretation provides not only more grounded and appropriately scaled renderings of past cultural practices but also critical engagements with analytical categories that carry significant political weight well outside of archaeological circles.

Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Turnover in Human Services Agencies Perceived as Stable or Nonstable

1998 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen O'Quin ◽  
Sandra LoTempio
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Job Dissatisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Human Services Agencies

Questionnaires were completed by 91 respondents employed by two human services agencies: 63 employees of a stable (no layoffs in eight years) organization, and 28 employees of a nonstable organization (which had experienced recent layoffs, and in which many employees were supported by grant funding which varied from year to year). The questionnaire included respondents' perceptions of job security and satisfaction with pay (measured with subscales of the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire), over-all job satisfaction (measured with the Porter Need Satisfaction Questionnaire), and additional measures of intention to turnover, absenteeism, productivity, etc. A 2 (agency) × 2 (high/low security) multivariate analysis of variance indicated that ratings of job insecurity were significantly related to job dissatisfaction in the agency perceived as nonstable but not in the agency perceived as stable. In both agencies, ratings of turnover intentions and pessimism about the future of the agency were higher among employees who reported feelings of insecurity. There were no differences in perceived absenteeism or productivity between employees of the two agencies.

scholarly journals Relationship between social capital indicators and lifestyle in Brazilian adults

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 1636-1647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Roberto Loch ◽  
Regina Kazue Tanno de Souza ◽  
Arthur Eumann Mesas ◽  
David Martinez-Gómez ◽  
Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Leisure Time Physical Activity ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Relationship

The present study examined the relationship between indicators of social capital and health-related behaviors. A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 1,062 participants representative of the population aged 40 years or older from a city in Southern Brazil. The following indicators of social capital were examined: number of friends, number of people they could borrow money from when in need; extent of trust in community members; number of times members of the community help each other; community safety; and extent of membership in community activities. Also, an overall score of social capital including all indicators was calculated. A poor social capital was associated with insufficient leisure-time physical activity (OR = 1.70; 95%CI: 1.07-2.70), low consumption of fruits and vegetables (OR = 1.53; 95%CI: 1.05-2.24), and smoking (OR = 1.97; 95%CI: 1.21-3.21). No clear association was found between capital social and binge drinking. A score of social capital showed an inverse relationship with the number of prevalent risk behaviors (p < 0.001). These results reinforce that policies to promote health should consider social capital.

Micro-aggressions, single mothers and interactions with government workers: The case of Australia’s child support bureaucracy

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 622-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Natalier
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Government Workers ◽  
Welfare Discourse ◽  
Mothers Experiences

This article analyses single mothers’ experiences of Australia’s child support bureaucracy, shifting the focus beyond problematic individual interactions to the discourses that shape them. Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with 37 Australian single mothers, I argue that women’s interactions with Department of Human Services – Child Support (DHS-CS) are expressions of gender-focused micro-aggressions. These are interactions that express and reinforce social hierarchies and power differentials in sometimes subtle and often taken-for-granted ways. I argue these interactions are structured by the dominant gendered welfare discourse that constitutes the welfare mother and legitimates masculine financial discretion. Thus, any attempt to address client concerns about the failings of DHS-CS, and by extension other government bureaucracies, must extend beyond ‘training’ and administrative processes, and engage with the more challenging strategies of socio-cultural change.

Structure and Activities of Rape Crisis Centers in the Early 1980s

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Gornick ◽  
Martha R. Burt ◽  
Karen J. Pittman
Keyword(s):  
Human Services ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Human Services Agencies ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Rape Crisis Center ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Many ◽  
Rape Crisis

Using data from a nationally representative sample of 50 rape crisis centers, this article investigates the range of center types, services offered, staffing, involvement in community networks, funding and affiliation with criminal justice, counseling, and human services agencies. The evolution of the rape crisis center from the few prototype centers opened in 1972 to the many different models existing today is traced. The most important finding is that rape crisis centers today do not fall neatly into types. Rather, they have developed to fit their communities, making choices about whom to serve, where to locate a service, how to work with other agencies in the community, how, when, and where to do community education, and how to establish financial security. A decision about one such dimension does not necessarily predict what the decision will be about the other dimensions.

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