Community Policing and Crime Reduction: A New View from Trinidad and Tobago

• In Event: Community Policing II: International Applications

Abstract

Community policing incorporates a variety of strategies and tactics in an effort to reduce crime and victimization, reduce disorder, reduce fear of crime, and/or improve police-community relations. Most of the evaluation research on the effects of community policing has been concentrated in the U.S. and other developed nations. Using a quasi-experimental design, this study examines the impact of a community policing initiative on crime and victimization patterns in a distressed urban community in Trinidad and Tobago, a small developing nation in the Caribbean recently beset by a significant rise in violent crime.

Authors

• Edward Maguire, American University

• Julie Hibdon, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

• Devon Johnson, George Mason University

• Joseph Kuhns, University of North Carolina at Charlotte