Abstract
This paper explores the policing of a traditional wholesale fruit market located in a densely populated neighborhood of urban Hong Kong. Based on ethnographic and historical research, we outline the political arrangements that govern the discretionary arrangements of police power at the market. A historically developed system maintains an informal status quo against various pressures to change. We identify crucial features in the contemporary policing system that emerge from a fusion between the democratic ethos of community policing ideals and non-democratic aspects of local administration in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. These features of this historically developed mode of order-maintenance, we suggest, might be seen as broadly characteristic of a "Hong Kong style" community policing.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 401-416 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Crime, Law and Social Change |
Volume | 61 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine
- Social Sciences(all)
- Law