ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a case study of how international developments in policing policy and practice (particularly in New York City) impacted on the policing of a heroin market in Cabramatta, an outlying suburb of Sydney, Australia. Attempting to provide the kind of empirical study suggested by Jones and Newburn (see Chapter 7) which links structure, culture and agency, we seek to show how transferred policies are implemented, how elements of them may conflict and how the crucial transfer may be not so much of particular policies but, rather, of less specific perceptions and attitudes, in this case a confidence in the ability of the police to reduce crime and an elision of the distinctions between community policing, harm minimisation and law enforcement.
