Policing Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods: The Miami Study and Findings for Law Enforcement in the United States, Vol. 20 - Geoffrey P. Alpert - Hardcover

In the past twenty-five years, the Miami metropolitan area has undergone a dramatic ethnic transformation that has brought with it complex challenges to the existing social order. The study grew out of an attempt to find workable and effective solutions to the problems faced by the area's police force in the wake of serious rioting and conflict between the populace and police. Alpert and Dunham argue that only by understanding the various ethnic groups' attitudes toward police and policing can beneficial means of maintaining order and controlling crime be planned and implemented. In developing their argument, the authors introduce the concepts of neighborhood as a conceptual and analytical unit, and they construct an interaction model that focuses on the interplay between the informal system of social control within the neighborhoods and the formal system of social control of the police.Alpert, Geoffrey P. is the author of 'Policing Multi-Ethnic Neighborhoods: The Miami Study and Findings for Law Enforcement in the United States, Vol. 20 - Geoffrey P. Alpert - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780313262906 and ISBN 031326290X.