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Book Review: Police — Force or Service?

Book Review: Police — Force or Service? BOOK REVIEWS ANZJ Crim (1982) 15 Police - Force or Service? John Avery (19Hl) Butterworths: Sydney. John Avery, an inspector in the New South \Vales Police Department , does not fit the normal stereo-type of an Australian police ollicer. First, in addition to his :30 years experience in law enforcement he has acquired a Master s degree and a diploma of criminology, qualifications which place him among a very small minority (almost certainly less than 1%) of police in this country who have completed tertiary studies. Secondly, he has written a hook about police work which makes him almost unique among his law enforcement contemporaries. Police - Force or Scrcice? is a thoughtful stimulating and at times provocative work which represents an important addition to the literature on policing in this countrv. Averv's central thesis is that law enforcement has become too instituiionalize~l and coercive. To readdress the situation he argues forcefully Ior the democratization of the social control process "to allow individual citizens to become involved because, according to the English tradition which we follow, law enforcement and keeping the peace is the rcsponsihility of every citizen aided hy a trained police-force" (p 78). In the course of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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BOOK REVIEWS ANZJ Crim (1982) 15 Police - Force or Service? John Avery (19Hl) Butterworths: Sydney. John Avery, an inspector in the New South \Vales Police Department , does not fit the normal stereo-type of an Australian police ollicer. First, in addition to his :30 years experience in law enforcement he has acquired a Master s degree and a diploma of criminology, qualifications which place him among a very small minority (almost certainly less than 1%) of police in this country who have completed tertiary studies. Secondly, he has written a hook about police work which makes him almost unique among his law enforcement contemporaries. Police - Force or Scrcice? is a thoughtful stimulating and at times provocative work which represents an important addition to the literature on policing in this countrv. Averv's central thesis is that law enforcement has become too instituiionalize~l and coercive. To readdress the situation he argues forcefully Ior the democratization of the social control process "to allow individual citizens to become involved because, according to the English tradition which we follow, law enforcement and keeping the peace is the rcsponsihility of every citizen aided hy a trained police-force" (p 78). In the course of

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1982

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