IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/policy/v45y2012i3p243-263.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The challenge of diversity management: police reform and the Arab minority in Israel

Author

Listed:
  • Guy Ben-Porat
  • Fany Yuval
  • Shlomo Mizrahi

Abstract

Diverse societies present different challenges for police forces that have to gain the trust and legitimacy of minorities. Police forces must develop the ability to engage with diversity and overcome their own biases and prejudices in order to better serve minorities. Police reforms, however, may fail to address the challenge successfully if core problems are not clearly identified. In such a case, reforms may be misdirected and fail to achieve the desired results. This paper, based on a study of the Arab minority in Israel, suggests a bottom-up approach that concentrates on identifying the attitudes of minority groups as the basis for any reform plan. A survey was conducted among Arab citizens to identify general attitudes, perceptions of over-policing and under-policing and assessment of three potential reforms; recruitment of minority members into the police, community involvement in policing, and cultural training for police officers. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2012

Suggested Citation

  • Guy Ben-Porat & Fany Yuval & Shlomo Mizrahi, 2012. "The challenge of diversity management: police reform and the Arab minority in Israel," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 45(3), pages 243-263, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:policy:v:45:y:2012:i:3:p:243-263
    DOI: 10.1007/s11077-012-9154-x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s11077-012-9154-x
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s11077-012-9154-x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Kate Linklater, 2022. "Inclusion Capital: How Police Officers Are Included in Their Workplaces," Societies, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-19, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:kap:policy:v:45:y:2012:i:3:p:243-263. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.