Making sense of partnerships: a study of police and housing department collaboration for tackling drug and related problems on public housing estates

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Title: Making sense of partnerships: a study of police and housing department collaboration for tackling drug and related problems on public housing estates
Author(s): Jacobs, Keith; Burke, Terry; Green, Meredith; Saggers, Sherry; Mason, Ron; Barclay, Angela
Abstract: In recent years, interdepartmental partnerships within the public sector have been heralded as effective instruments for addressing complex social problems. For example, it is claimed that they can motivate staff and facilitate innovative practices that lead to improvements in service delivery. However, though partnerships are widely promoted as a panacea within the sector, there is a paucity of research that has looked at them from a critical perspective or examined how they operate in practice. [Executive summary]
Publication type: Book
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
Publication year: 2007
Keyword(s): Substance abuse; Public housing; Police-community relations; Antisocial behaviour; Community crime prevention; Social problems; Interagency cooperation; Case studies
Publisher: National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund
ISSN: 1449-7476
ISBN: 1921201592
Publisher URL: http://www.ndlerf.gov.au/pub/Monograph_26.pdf
Additional information: "Funded by the National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund: An Initiative of the National Drug Strategy".
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