Communitarianism is an attempt to nurture an underlying structure of "civil society".

Communitarians
support processes such as problem solving, where neighborhoods have taken matters into their own
hands. According to communitarianism, communities are posited as having moral value in the way that
individuals do. Communitarian theory of CP maintains that the individuals are shaped by the
communities to which they belong and thus owe them a debt of respect and consideration. According to
this view point, the people have the responsibility to fight crime and they need to actively participate in
doing so.

Communitarian politics has brought forth zero-tolerance policing and full-enforcement criminal justice
before it is too 'late'. Wilson and Kelling (1982) in their celebrated 'broken windows' article argue that
policing against low –level crime and incivilities is very important. Communitarian Theory of Community
Policing (CP) argues that CP outcomes would be more humane than the present repressive risk control
penalties of state via the police and would eventually lead to community justice. The predominance of
business interests has led to crime prevention schemes as in CP being described as corporatism
'masquerading' as communitarianism.