Civilian Oversight of Police (eBook, PDF)

Advancing Accountability in Law Enforcement
Redaktion: Prenzler, Tim; Den Heyer, Garth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. It integrates and summarizes decades of research from many locations around the globe to present a best practices model for managing police conduct. It also describes the impact of oversight agencies on police policy, including innovative means by which agencies can work with police departments to improve police conduct.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482234206
• Artikelnr.: 44204308

Autorenporträt

Tim Prenzler is a professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, where he is program convenor of the Bachelor in Criminology and Justice. He was a chief investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, based at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, where he managed the Integrity Systems Research Program. He was also a member of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University. He is the author of Police Corruption: Preventing Misconduct and Maintaining Integrity; coauthor, with Adam Graycar, of Understanding and Preventing Corruption; editor of Policing and Security in Practice: Challenges and Achievements; and editor of Professional Practice in Crime Prevention and Security Management. Garth den Heyer is a qualitative researcher whose interests include police organizational reform and performance and police service delivery effectiveness. He is an inspector with the New Zealand Police, a lecturer with Walden University in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a senior research fellow with the Police Foundation in Washington, DC. He has a doctorate in public policy from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. He has published extensively on police reform and is the author of The Role of Civilian Police in Peacekeeping: 1999-2007 and Use of Econometric Modeling and Analysis to Support Operational Policing.

Inhaltsangabe

SETTING THE CONTEXT. Scandal, Inquiry, and Reform: The Evolving Locus of
Responsibility for Police Integrity. Independent Minded: The Role and
Status of "Independence" in the Investigation of Police Complaints.
STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES ON COMPLAINTS AGAINST POLICE. Democratic Policing,
Public Opinion, and External Oversight. Complainants' Views of Police
Complaint Systems: The Gap between Aspiration and Experience. Police Views
on Processing Complaints against Police. REGIONAL, NATIONAL, AND
JURISDICTIONAL ACCOUNTS OF EXTERNAL OVERSIGHT. Civilian Oversight of Police
in Africa: Trends and Challenges. Police Accountability and Citizen
Oversight in Emerging Democracies in Asia. The Interface between Human
Rights and Police Complaints in Europe. Citizen Oversight in the United
States and Canada: Applying Outcome Measures and Evidence-Based Concepts.
Police Independent Oversight in Australia and New Zealand. TOWARD A MODEL
SYSTEM. Police Professional Standards Units and External Oversight
Agencies: Can There Be Productive Collaboration? Managing Police Conduct:
Finding the Ideal Division of Labor between Internal and External
Processes.