Hong-Kong-style community policing: a study of the Yau Ma Tei fruit market

This paper explores the policing of a traditional wholesale fruit market located in a densely populated neighborhood of urban Hong Kong. Based on ethnographic and historical research, we outline the political arrangements that govern the discretionary arrangements of police power at the market. A hi...

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Authors: Martin, Jeffrey T. (Author) ; Chan, Wayne W. L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2014, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 401-416
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Chief Executive
Judicial Review
Police Force
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Special Administrative Region
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Summary:This paper explores the policing of a traditional wholesale fruit market located in a densely populated neighborhood of urban Hong Kong. Based on ethnographic and historical research, we outline the political arrangements that govern the discretionary arrangements of police power at the market. A historically developed system maintains an informal status quo against various pressures to change. We identify crucial features in the contemporary policing system that emerge from a fusion between the democratic ethos of community policing ideals and non-democratic aspects of local administration in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. These features of this historically developed mode of order-maintenance, we suggest, might be seen as broadly characteristic of a "Hong Kong style" community policing.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 415-416
ISSN:1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-013-9496-0