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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Autor principal: Martin, Jeffrey T. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Chan, Wayne W. L.
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2014
En: Crime, law and social change
Año: 2014, Volumen: 61, Número: 4, Páginas: 401-416
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Chief Executive
Judicial Review
Police Force
Police Officer
Special Administrative Region
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 415-416
ISSN:1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-013-9496-0