POLICING ACADEMIA IN ILLINOIS: THE EVOLUTION OF AN AMERICAN POLICING MODEL

ABSTRACT

As a conceptually distinctive model of policing, the modern campus police department is developed against its historical backdrop, as a unique policing modality separate from the hegemonic, law-enforcement oriented, big-city police department, its progenitor. Much like sheriff's agencies and the military police, campus police suffer a reduced status within the American policing paradigm, largely because of their numerous responsibilities perceived as only peripheral to the dominant law enforcement function of the metropolitan police. Nonetheless, campus police have become important members of the growing number of police organizational models within the mosaic of policing agencies in the United States; they are also important stakeholders in the community-oriented policing movement as a result of the socially complex nature of the modern collegiate campus community.