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Conceptualising Community Policing, Crime Prevention and Criminology: A Singapore Perspective:
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In this article, the authors trace the development of the community policing approach to crime prevention in Singapore, examines the perspectives which inform the approach, and briefly describes the various crime pr...Abstract:
The paper traces the development of the community policing approach to crime prevention in Singapore, examines the perspectives which inform the approach, and briefly describes the various crime pr...read more
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Trends in police research: a cross‐sectional analysis of the 2006 literature
Brad Bartholomew,Jennifer C. Gibbs,David Mazeika,Eileen M. Ahlin,Patricia Joseph,Noah A. Miller +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional analysis of the police literature for the year 2002, highlighting the substantive categories of the literature as well as distribution of publication medium and methodological typology is presented.
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The effect of community policing on fear and crime reduction, police legitimacy and job satisfaction: an empirical review of the evidence
TL;DR: Since the 1970s, community policing strategies or the language thereof have been purportedly initiated by a number of police departments nationwide to address notable issues such as crime, neighbor, etc..
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Muslim Girl Culture and Social Control in Southeast Asia: Exploring the Hijabista and Hijabster Phenomena
TL;DR: While research on youth cultures in Southeast Asia has traditionally focused on crime, class, and delinquency among adolescent and young-adult males, the 21st century has seen an increase in resear...
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Consuming private security: Consumer citizenship and defensive urbanism in Singapore:
TL;DR: The emergence of uneven patchwork of urban policing and security provision, increasingly determined by the ability and will of the local authorities, has been discussed in this article, where it has been suggested that we are witnessing the emergence of an uneven patch-work of cities.
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Spatial order through the family: the regulation of urban space in Singapore
TL;DR: This paper examined the role of the family unit in past and present urban development in Singapore and demonstrated how a "softer" version of spatial regulation emerged from an intersection of state commercial development policies that favored small, family-owned businesses and the extension of a family-based moral social order applied to the surrounding public spaces.
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“Situational” Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice
TL;DR: Clar as mentioned in this paper argues that an alternative theoretical emphasis on choices and decisions made by the offender leads to a broader and perhaps more realistic approach to crime prevention, which is also consistent with a preoccupation of criminological ��theory with criminal "dispositions".
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The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore
Michael Hill,Kwen Fee Lian +1 more
TL;DR: Singapore is a state that has firmly rejected welfarism but whose political leaders have maintained that collective values, instead of those of autonomous individuals, are essential to its very survival.