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33 Crime & Delinquency 3 (1987)

handle is hein.journals/cadq33 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction Shirley Melnicoe This special issue, supported by a generous grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, is devoted to methods by which the police and the community deal with the fear of crime. Research showing that crime and the fear of crime are separate and often unrelated phenomena is presented in a series of articles that range from new strategies focusing on the order maintenance role of policing to community crime prevention and the impact of victimization on fear. Fascinating experiments are taking place around the country that are trying to attack the amorphous problem of fear that arises from a multitude of sources in additiorto direct or indirect experiences with crime. Police departments have been developing new strategies to respond to citizens' fear of crime in neighborhoods with problems such as broken street lights, garbage, weeds, neglect, visible drug use and sales, violence, and no recreational facilities for youth. Instead of using traditional approaches of arrest or investigation to address these problems, departments using the problem-solving, community-oriented approach use their imagination and intelligence to solve these problems. By acting as the catalyst and working with other agencies, police departments in the experiments described by several of the articles, have been responsible for neighborhoods getting cleaned up and facilities for youth being established. The end result has been to lower crime rates, improve the quality of life, and even improve job satisfaction among the police. Herman Goldstein, the author of the first article, initially proposed the concept of problem-focused, community-oriented policing by suggesting that police examine a problem in-depth and then work toward developing a solution that may well go beyond the traditional scope of the police. Goldstein argues that police must be more responsive not only to crime but fear of crime and the quality of life by dealing with specific problems that have generated fear. This problem- SHIRLEY MELNICOE: Research Associate, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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