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1 Police Prac. & Res. 31 (2000)
Policing in Transition

handle is hein.journals/gppr1 and id is 35 raw text is: Police Prucfice, 2000, Vol. 1(1). pp. 31-39 O 2000 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association) N.V. Reprints available directly from the publisher Published by license under Photocopying permitted by license only the Harwood Academic Publishers imprint, pat of The Gordon and Breach Publishing Group. Printed in Malaysia POLICING IN TRANSITION JEREMY TRAVIS Director National Institute of Justice Washington DC (Received January 19, 1999; In final form January 29, 1999) This paper discusses the critical role of the police in developing democratic societies; the principles of democratic policing; the role of research in assessing democratic policing, high- lighting recent research undertaken in the United States and abroad; the importance of inter- national collaborations and researcher-practitioner partnerships in understanding the meaning of democratic policing around the world; and the role of policing in an era of changing crime patterns. The paper suggests that more international collaboration and cross-national research is necessary at this critical time of transition in both policing and the development of demo- cratic societies. Keywords: Police Democratic Societies Cross National Research INTRODUCTION Unprecedented changes are underway in our global community. The fun- damental truths of our age could only be imagined a decade or two ago. We communicate instantly through Internet technology. We speak around the globe through satellite transmissions. The economies of our nations are now so interdependent that a tremor in the Tokyo market is felt instantane- ously in the financial markets around the world. Boundaries that have kept nations apart for centuries have lost much of their meaning. And around the world, from the countries of the former Soviet Union to the post-apart- heid world of South Africa, the forces of totalitarianism have lost their hold, sometimes precipitously, and the forces of democracy are struggling to take root. How do these forces influence, and how are they influenced by, the changing nature of crime and our changing responses to crime? What are the currents of change that we can observe in the world of crime? With the 31

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