Analysing the historical circumstances and theoretical sources that have generated ideas about citizen and community participation in crime control, this book examines the various ideals, outcomes and effects that citizen participation has been held to stimulate and how these have been transformed, renegotiated and reinvigorated over time.

Karen Bullock is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK. She has published widely on contemporary policing and crime prevention theory and practice, and most recently on contemporary forms of community and intelligence-led policing, the impact of the 1998 Human Rights Act and volunteering within the police practice.

1. Introduction 2. Citizenship Participation and Democracy 3. Positioning the Citizen Within Contemporary Policing 4. Consultation 5. Community Policing 6. Neighbourhood Watch 7. Citizen Patrols 8. Volunteering in the Police Service 9. Indirect Democracy - Elections 10. Conclusion