Empowerment on Chinese Police Force's Role in Social Service [electronic resource] / by Xiaohai Wang.

Introduction -- Key Themes of Chinese Policing -- Theoretical Framework -- Methodology -- Policing in the Pre-reform Era: Mass Line of Policing -- Policing in the Reform Era: Strike Hard Campaigns and Emergence of Police Social Service Role Conflict and Incongruity -- Policing in the Reform Era: The Police Professionalization and Emergence of Police Social Service Role Ambiguity, Overload and Inadequacy -- Community Policing in the Reform Era: Police Professional Ethics and Emergence of Social Service Role Under-compensation -- Police Social Service Role Strain-Stress: Findings of Their Relationship and Rise of Formal Social Control -- Coping with Police Social Service Role Strain: Findings of the Paramilitary-Bureaucratic Structure and Structural Empowerment of the Police Organization -- Coping with Police Social Service Role Strain: Findings of the Paramilitary-Bureaucratic Structure and Psychological Empowerment of the Police Organization -- Conclusion -- Reference -- Appendices.