Lee Hanlon, CD, BGS March 30, 2007 Crim 151 Professor: Charn Kingra
. All too often we hear stories of female victims of domestic violence. And for the female victims, there are various support groups and programs to assist them. Yet when it is the male, who becomes the victim in domestic violence incidents, they are shunned and looked down upon. As well, there is little or no support networks available for the male victims of domestic violence. And then the male victims are asked, "what part of this situation are you taking responsibility for?" Yet when it is the woman that is the victim, no such question is asked. The first part of this paper will address community-policing, and the second part of this paper will address the issue of male victims of domestic violence in the community of Mission, British Columbia. According to Whitelaw, Parent, and Griffiths (2006), community policing has its routes in early 1800s England, created by Sir Robert Peel. Peel sought to legitimize the new police force created, by arguing that the police would serve the interests of all citizens, and that the police would include the prevention of crime as part of their mandate (pp. 6-7).
. The community context plays a significant role in determining the demands that are placed upon police officers, the role that the police assume in the community, and the specific patterns of relationships that exist between the community and the police (which, in turn, will determine the potential for police-community partnerships in preventing and responding to crime) (Whitelaw, et al., p. 22). Communities vary on a number of critical dimensions, including their size; their socio-economic, ethnic, cultural, and spiritual makeup; the types and levels of citizen interest in becoming involved in police-community partnerships (Whitelaw, et al., p. 22). According to Whitelaw, et al. (2006), a key requirement for effective community policing is that police officers have a thorough understanding of the community they are policing. Officers must be able to identify key resource persons in the community who will facilitate the development of police-community partnerships, but also be sensitive to potential sources of resistance in the community that may undermine community policing initiatives (p. 23). According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, problem-oriented policing (POP), coined by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Herman Goldstein, is a policing strategy that involves identifying specific crime and disorder problems, such as occur in crime hot spots.