Police Accountability

Author : Stuart Lister,Michael Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134708840

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Accountability of Policing by Stuart Lister,Michael Rowe Pdf

Accountability of Policing provides a contemporary and wide-ranging examination of the accountability and governance of ‘police’ and ‘policing’. Debates about ‘who guards the guards’ are among the oldest and most protracted in the history of democracy, but over the last decade we have witnessed important changes in how policing and security agencies are governed, regulated and held to account. Against a backdrop of increasing complexity in the local, national and transnational landscapes of ‘policing’, political, legal, administrative and technological developments have served to alter regimes of accountability. The extent and pace of these changes raises a pressing need for ongoing academic research, analysis and debate. Bringing together contributions from a range of leading scholars, this book offers an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the shifting themes of accountability within policing. The contributions explore questions of accountability across a range of dimensions, including those ‘individuals’ and ‘institutions’ responsible for its delivery, within and between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ sectors, and at ‘local’, ‘national’ and ‘transnational’ scales of jurisdiction. They also engage with the concept of ‘accountability’ in a broad sense, bringing to the surface the various meanings that have become associated with it and demonstrating how it is invoked and interpreted in different contexts. Accountability of Policing is essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of policing, criminal justice and criminology and will also be of great interest to practitioners and policymakers.

Author : Samuel E. Walker,Carol A. Archbold
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544339191

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The New World of Police Accountability by Samuel E. Walker,Carol A. Archbold Pdf

Completely revised to cover recent events and research, the Third Edition of The New World of Police Accountability provides an original and comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in police accountability and reform strategies. With a keen and incisive perspective, esteemed authors and policing researchers, Samuel Walker and Carol Archbold, address the most recent developments and provide an analysis of what works, what reforms are promising, and what has proven unsuccessful. The book’s analysis draws on current research, as well as the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and the reforms embodied in Justice Department consent decrees. New to the Third Edition: The national crisis over police legitimacy and use of force is put into context through extensive discussions of recent police shootings and the response to this national crisis, providing readers a valuable perspective on the positive steps that have been taken and the limits of those steps. Coverage of the issues related to police officer uses of force is now the prevailing topic in Chapter 3 and includes detailed discussion of the topic, including de-escalation, tactical decision making, and the important changes in training related to these issues. An updated examination of the impact of technology on policing, including citizens’ use of recording devices, body-worn cameras, open data provided by police agencies, and use of social media, explores how technology contributes to police accountability in the United States. A complete, up-to-date discussion of citizen oversight of the police provides details on the work of selected oversight agencies, including the positive developments and their limitations, enabling readers to have an informed discussion of the subject. Detailed coverage of routine police activities that often generate public controversy now includes such topics as responding to mental health calls, domestic violence calls, and police "stop and frisk" practices. Issues related to policing and race relations are addressed head-on through a careful examination of the data, as well as the impact of recent reforms that have attempted to achieve professional, bias-free policing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CHRI
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788188205509

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THE POLICE, THE PEOPLE, THE POLITICS: Police accountability in Ghana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bryce Clayton Newell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429800962

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Police on Camera by Bryce Clayton Newell Pdf

Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) are at the cutting edge of policing. They have sparked important conversations about the proper role and extent of police in society and about balancing security, oversight, accountability, privacy, and surveillance in our modern world. Police on Camera address the conceptual and empirical evidence surrounding the use of BWCs by police officers in societies around the globe, offering a variety of differing opinions from experts in the field. The book provides the reader with conceptual and empirical analyses of the role and impact of police body-worn cameras in society. These analyses are complimented by invited commentaries designed to open up dialogue and generate debate on these important social issues. The book offers informed, critical commentary to the ongoing debates about the implications that BWCs have for society in various parts of the world, with special attention to issues of police accountability and discretion, privacy, and surveillance. This book is designed to be accessible to a broad audience, and is targeted at scholars and students of surveillance, law and policy, and the police, as well as policymakers and others interested in how surveillance technologies are impacting our modern world and criminal justice institutions.

Author : Samuel E. Walker,Carol A. Archbold
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781544339207

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The New World of Police Accountability by Samuel E. Walker,Carol A. Archbold Pdf

"This book gives a brief yet thorough summary of the main components of police accountability in the 21st century. What works, what doesn’t, and where are we going in the future? I love to use it with my undergraduate students to help them understand the complexities of policing in the modern era." —Janne E. Gaub, East Carolina University Completely revised to cover recent events and research, the Third Edition of The New World of Police Accountability provides an original and comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in police accountability and reform strategies. With a keen and incisive perspective, esteemed authors and policing researchers, Samuel Walker and Carol Archbold, address the most recent developments and provide an analysis of what works, what reforms are promising, and what has proven unsuccessful. The book’s analysis draws on current research, as well as the President′s Task Force on 21st Century Policing and the reforms embodied in Justice Department consent decrees. New to the Third Edition: The national crisis over police legitimacy and use of force, is put into context through extensive discussions of recent police shootings and the response to this national crisis, providing readers a valuable perspective on the positive steps that have been taken and the limits of those steps. Coverage of the issues related to police officer uses of force is now the prevailing topic in Chapter 3 and includes detailed discussion of the topic, including de-escalation, tactical decision making, and the important changes in training related to these issues. An updated examination of the impact of technology on policing, including citizens’ use of recording devices, body-worn cameras, open data provided by police agencies, and use of social media, explores how technology contributes to police accountability in the United States. A complete, up-to-date discussion of citizen oversight of the police provides details on the work of selected oversight agencies, including the positive developments and their limitations, enabling readers to have an informed discussion of the subject. Detailed coverage of routine police activities that often generate public controversy now includes such topics as responding to mental health calls, domestic violence calls, and police "stop and frisk" practices. Issues related to policing and race relations are addressed head-on through a careful examination of the data, as well as the impact of recent reforms that have attempted to achieve professional, bias-free policing.

Author : Gautam Ghosh
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Police
ISBN : 8131301974

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Police Accountability by Gautam Ghosh Pdf

Author : International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative,Maja Daruwala,Devika Prasad,Swati Mehta,Maria Laura Canineu,Janine Rauch
Publisher : CHRI
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Police
ISBN : 9788188205172

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Police Accountability: Too Important to Neglect, Too Urgent to Delay by International Advisory Commission of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative,Maja Daruwala,Devika Prasad,Swati Mehta,Maria Laura Canineu,Janine Rauch Pdf

Author : George L. Kelling,Robert Wasserman,Hubert Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Community policing
ISBN : PURD:32754063594992

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Police Accountability and Community Policing by George L. Kelling,Robert Wasserman,Hubert Williams Pdf

Author : Samuel Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0534699707

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Police Accountability by Samuel Walker Pdf

Author : Tim Prenzler,Garth den Heyer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781482234206

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Civilian Oversight of Police by Tim Prenzler,Garth den Heyer Pdf

Exploring the complex and controversial topic of civilian oversight of police, this book analyzes the issues and debates entailed by civilian oversight by using worldwide perspectives, in-depth case studies, and a wealth of survey data. Integrating and summarizing decades of research from many locations around the globe, Civilian Oversight of Polic

Author : Ben Bowling,James Sheptycki
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781446292174

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Global Policing by Ben Bowling,James Sheptycki Pdf

In the transitional networked society, police power is no longer constrained by the borders of the nation state. It has globalised. Global Policing shows how security threats have been constructed by powerful actors to justify the creation of a new global policing architecture and how the subculture of policing shapes the world system. Demonstrating how a theory of global policing is central to understanding global governance, the text explores: - the ′new security agenda′ focused on serious organised crime and terrorism and how this is transforming policing - the creation of global organisations such as Interpol, regional entities such as Europol, and national policing agencies with a transnational reach - the subculture of the ′global cops′, blurring boundaries between police, private security, military and secret intelligence agencies - the reality of transnational policing on the ground, its effectiveness, legitimacy, accountability and future development. Written by two leading international experts who bring cutting-edge theoretical debates to life with case studies and examples, Global Policing will prove captivating reading for students and scholars in criminology, criminal justice, international relations, law and sociology.

Author : Stuart Lister,Michael Rowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134708918

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Accountability of Policing by Stuart Lister,Michael Rowe Pdf

Accountability of Policing provides a contemporary and wide-ranging examination of the accountability and governance of ‘police’ and ‘policing’. Debates about ‘who guards the guards’ are among the oldest and most protracted in the history of democracy, but over the last decade we have witnessed important changes in how policing and security agencies are governed, regulated and held to account. Against a backdrop of increasing complexity in the local, national and transnational landscapes of ‘policing’, political, legal, administrative and technological developments have served to alter regimes of accountability. The extent and pace of these changes raises a pressing need for ongoing academic research, analysis and debate. Bringing together contributions from a range of leading scholars, this book offers an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the shifting themes of accountability within policing. The contributions explore questions of accountability across a range of dimensions, including those ‘individuals’ and ‘institutions’ responsible for its delivery, within and between the ‘public’ and ‘private’ sectors, and at ‘local’, ‘national’ and ‘transnational’ scales of jurisdiction. They also engage with the concept of ‘accountability’ in a broad sense, bringing to the surface the various meanings that have become associated with it and demonstrating how it is invoked and interpreted in different contexts. Accountability of Policing is essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of policing, criminal justice and criminology and will also be of great interest to practitioners and policymakers.

Author : Luis Daniel Gascón,Aaron Roussell
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479871209

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The Limits of Community Policing by Luis Daniel Gascón,Aaron Roussell Pdf

A critical look at the realities of community policing in South Los Angeles The Limits of Community Policing addresses conflicts between police and communities. Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell depart from traditional conceptions, arguing that community policing—popularized for decades as a racial panacea—is not the solution it seems to be. Tracing this policy back to its origins, they focus on the Los Angeles Police Department, which first introduced community policing after the high-profile Rodney King riots. Drawing on over sixty interviews with officers, residents, and stakeholders in South LA’s “Lakeside” precinct, they show how police tactics amplified—rather than resolved—racial tensions, complicating partnership efforts, crime response and prevention, and accountability. Gascón and Roussell shine a new light on the residents of this neighborhood to address the enduring—and frequently explosive—conflicts between police and communities. At a time when these issues have taken center stage, this volume offers a critical understanding of how community policing really works.

Author : Maurice Punch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134028146

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Police Corruption by Maurice Punch Pdf

Policing and corruption are inseparable. This book argues that corruption is not one thing but covers many deviant and criminal practices in policing which also shift over time. It rejects the 'bad apple' metaphor and focuses on 'bad orchards', meaning not individual but institutional failure. For in policing the organisation, work and culture foster can encourage corruption. This raises issues as to why do police break the law and, crucially, 'who controls the controllers'? Corruption is defined in a broad, multi-facetted way. It concerns abuse of authority and trust; and it takes serious form in conspiracies to break the law and to evade exposure when cops can become criminals. Attention is paid to typologies of corruption (with grass-eaters, meat-eaters, noble-cause); the forms corruption takes in diverse environments; the pathways officers take into corruption and their rationalisations; and to collusion in corruption from within and without the organization. Comparative analyses are made of corruption, scandal and reform principally in the USA, UK and the Netherlands. The work examines issues of control, accountability and the new institutions of oversight. It provides a fresh, accessible overview of this under-researched topic for students, academics, police and criminal justice officials and members of oversight agencies.

Author : Eugene McLaughlin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000854909

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Community, Policing and Accountability by Eugene McLaughlin Pdf

Originally published in 1994, this work examines the different models of police accountability that were implemented in the 1980s. Based on research carried out in Manchester, the work discusses local government efforts to construct a new social contract between the police and the community. The research is considered within the wider theoretical debates about the nature of participatory democracy. The conclusion argues that there is an urgent need to confront the complexities of constructing satisfactory police-community relations in Britain's inner cities. It evaluates whether the reorganization of policing at the time would lead to a more accountable police service. It was one of the first books in this country to argue for an abolitionist position that is now central to BLM debates. Today it can be read against the backdrop of ongoing debates of police accountability and police race relations.