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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2014
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Crime, law and social change
Year: 2014, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 401-416 |
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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. |
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Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 415-416 |
ISSN: | 1573-0751 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10611-013-9496-0 |