- 238 pages
- English
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Accountability of Policing
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Accountability of policing
- 2 The rise and fall of âstop and accountâ: lessons for police accountability
- 3 Improving police behaviour and policeâcommunity relations through innovative responses to complaints
- 4 Getting behind the blue curtain: managing police integrity
- 5 Integrity, accountability and public trust: issues raised by the unauthorised use of confidential police information
- 6 Electocracy with accountabilities? The novel governance model of Police and Crime Commissioners
- 7 Power to the people? A social democratic critique of the Coalition Governmentâs police reforms
- 8 Accountability, policing and the Police Service of Northern Ireland: local practice, global standards?
- 9 Private security and the politics of accountability
- 10 Plural policing and the challenge of democratic accountability
- 11 Reflections on legal and political accountability for global policing
- Index