Focused on two key topics regarding policing in the 21st century, this volume brings together highly insightful essays from world-class scholars on developments in contemporary community policing in advanced industrial societies, and peacekeeping in weak and failing states.

Peter Grabosky is a professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at Australian National University.

Community Policing, East and West, North and South. Seeing Like a Citizen: Field Experiments in Community

Intelligence-Led Policing. Democratic Policing. Community Policing Without the Police? The Limits of Order Maintenance by the Community. The Small-Scale Initiative: The Rhetoric and the Reality of Community Policing in Australia. Community Policing and Accountability. Police - Social Service Collaboration: Creating Effective Partnerships. Embedding Partnership Policing: What We've Learned from the Nexus Policing Project. Serious Gun Violence in San Francisco: Developing a Partnership-Based Violence Prevention Strategy. A Thin or a Thick Blue Line? Exploring Alternative Models for Community Policing and the Police Role in South Africa. Community Policing in China: a New Era of Mass Line Policing. The Effect of Community Policing on Chinese Organized Crime: The Hong Kong Case. Police Development: Confounding Challenges for the International Community. Policing Peace: Evolving Police Roles in UN Peace Operations. "It Wasn't Like Normal Policing": Voices of Australian Police Peace-Keepers in Operation Serene, Timor-Leste 2006. What Happens Before and After: The Organizational and Human Resources Challenges of Deploying Canadian Police Peacekeepers Abroad. Policing Business Confidence? Controlling Crime Victimization in Papua New Guinea. Police Capacity Development in the Pacific: The Challenge of the Local Context. Reinventing Policing Through the Prism of the Colonial Kiap. Policing in Cambodia: Legitimacy in the Making?