Book Review of Community policing and Peace keeping

Kingsley U. Ejiogu, I. D. Onwudiwe

Texas Southern University, USA

Abstract:

The compendium "community policing and peacekeeping" is a continuation of the conversation on the fledgling interests and role of community policing in the "Advances in Police Theory and Practice" Series of the CRC press. The first major accomplishment of Peter Grabosky, an eminent scholar and Professor in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies of the Australian National University as the editor of this present work, is the assemblage of a cross-section of Western oriented authorities in criminal justice scholarship and practice, with Asian addition of Lee King Wa and Lena Y. Zhong, from Hong Kong. Therefore, it may not be out of place to begin by positing this book more correctly as dominated by "Western perspective," if only to make a contrast from another compendium in the same series by Dominique Wisler and Ihekwoaba Onwudiwe, which gave a broader geographic viewpoint. Few scholars are usually able to deliver on a wide diversity of relational issues, as background and geographic locations may be significant, where informal entities in the nature of human communes are called in. This book addresses a variety of contemporary topics in the community policing literature, including "peace keeping," which is sure to rouse some definitional interests.

Keyword:

community policing and peacekeeping ,CRC press. ,Western perspective ,peace keeping ,democratic policing