Exploring the experience of security in the Australian Vietnamese community: practical implications for policing [ 2007 - 2011 ]

Research Grant

Researchers Prof DL Meredyth; Prof TN Thomas; Prof MD Gilding; Prof NL Cherry; Dr L Weber; Mr G Jamieson

Brief description Effective policing in Victoria depends upon sensitive relations with complex communities, but police experience persistent difficulties in implementing community policing strategies with the Australian Vietnamese community. Vietnamese residents call for police action and protection from drug and gambling-related crime. However, police find it difficult to build effective communication and co-operation with a community that seems reticent and lacking in trust. This project explores solutions to these problems, drawing on qualitative research on attitudes, experience of security and insecurity, institutional culture and cultural understandings amongst both police and community members.

Funding Amount $446,842

Funding Scheme Linkage Projects