Lorraine Mazerolle, Janet Ransley, Michelle Sydes and Kevin Petersen
Partnerships in policing are now part of the business-as-usual approach taken by police to reduce crime and violence. The emphasis for police across most parts of the world is on partnerships with businesses, government agencies, and communities to co-produce public safety. This co-production approach permeates all levels of law enforcement from tackling complex corporate crimes to reducing the flow of drugs to street level markets. In this presentation, we explore the characteristics of partnerships that work to reduce crime and violence and the factors that hamper their effectiveness. We conclude that code enforcement and dyad partnerships using cooperative engagement styles are associated with more crime control benefits than partnership-based interventions using civil actions or orders that involve multiple partners and coercive engagement styles.