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Author(s)
CAI Yuan-qing
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DOI:10.17265/2160-6579/2018.02.004
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Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
ABSTRACT
It is of great significance to enhance
collaborative community policing for crime prevention and
better community-police relationships. Understanding the relational structure
of collaborative community policing is necessary to pinpoint the pattern of
interactions among key actors involved in community policing and improve the
effectiveness of network governance. Based on 234 surveys of citizens of S
Community in Beijing from April 2017 to May 2017, this paper empirically examines the
characteristics of formal network and informal network of citizen
participation in the collaborative community policing. Beijing is widely known for its active
involvement of neighborhood volunteers in different types of community
policing. We focused on four different types of interpersonal work
relationships in this study: workflow, problem solving, mentoring and
friendship, among resident
committees, neighborhood administrative
offices, media, police station, business security personnel, neighborhood
volunteers, and security activists. The nature of
relationships between individuals in networks can be treated as from instrumental ties to
expressive ties. Expressive ties cover relationships that involve the exchange of friendship, trust, and
socio-emotional support. We extended this intra-organizational insight into a
community policing inter-organizational context. The collaborative network
showed the trend of the distributed
network. The clustering analysis showed that in the workflow network, we should
make full use of the close interaction between the citizens and
activists in the community. Meanwhile, in the problem-solving network,
mentoring network and friendship network, interactions between citizens and
neighborhood committee are weak.
KEYWORDS
social networks, citizen participation, collaborative community policing
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