Accountability of Policing

Herausgeber: Lister, Stuart; Rowe, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780415715331
• ISBN-10: 0415715334
• Artikelnr.: 40141000

Autorenporträt

Stuart Lister is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds. His research interests focus on exploring the changes and continuities in the arrangement, provision, accountability and effectiveness of contemporary policing and security endeavours. He has worked previously at the Universities of Durham and Keele. Michael Rowe is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University. His research interests focus on the ethics and governance of policing, diversity in criminal justice, and offender desistance. He has taught at Victoria University, Wellington and at the University of Leicester.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Accountability of Policing, Stuart Lister & Michael Rowe 2. The Rise and
Fall of "Stop and Account": Lessons for police accountability, Richard
Young 3. Improving Police Behaviour and Police-Community Relations through
Innovative Responses to Complaints, Tim Prenzler and Louise Porter 4.
Getting Behind the Blue Curtain: Managing police integrity, Michael Rowe,
Louise Westmarland and Courtney Hougham 5. Integrity, Accountability and
Public Trust: Issues raised by the unauthorised use of confidential police
information, Cindy Davids and Gordon Boyce 6. Electocracy with
Accountabilities? The novel governance model of police and crime
commissioners, John W. Raine 7. Power to the People? A social democratic
critique of the coalition government's police reforms, Robert Reiner 8.
Accountability, Policing and the Police Service of Northern Ireland: Local
practice, global standards?, John Topping 9. Private Security and the
Politics of Accountability, Adam White 10.Plural Policing and the Challenge
of Democratic Accountability, Stuart Lister and Trevor Jones 11.
Reflections on Legal and Political Accountability for Global Policing, Ben
Bowling and James Sheptycki.