Author: Floyd Millen Publisher: ISBN: 9781789557213 Category : Languages : en Pages : 364
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Read in its entirety, Police Reform and Political Accountability. The Ties That Bind Policing in England and Wales and the United States of America tells an intriguing and multifaceted story of policing in two countries, whose history and experiences have converged, diverged, ebbed, and flowed over hundreds of years. As each generation takes its place at the helm of society; preceding generations are laboriously writing and rewriting history with the inevitable result that important events, people information and memories will be side-lined, minimised and lost. This book begins with the back story of an empire which emerged almost by accident without a grand design, but which once created, worked relentlessly to sustain and expand its sphere of influence and control. Charting the system of policing that emerged; this is quintessentially a story of Englishmen and women in England and the system of policing that emerged. This is also a story of the Englishmen and women who fled England to escape religious oppression, taking with them, the customs, and systems of law and order that they had known. On arrival in their new land, they found little solace as they sought to carve out new lives in the new world of Amerigo Vespucius. The ties that bound England and Wales and the United States of America were first and foremostly familial; in time, they became political, economic, social and despite the march of history and cultural divergence; the ties remain to this day and this book covers part of that story. As society has grown, needs change and as we have demanded more from our police services and the state, so too have they demanded more from each of us. The intention of this book is to assist the reader in understanding how the past portends for the future, and to compel us to think deeply about the ties of custom, politics, hope and fear that has informed the creation and transformation of our police services and which will continue to do so in the future.
Author: Yanilda María González Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108900380 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 375
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In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the 'black box' of police bureaucracies to show how police forces exert power and cultivate relationships with politicians, as well as how social inequality impedes change. González shows that authoritarian policing persists not in spite of democracy but in part because of democratic processes and public demand. When societal preferences over the distribution of security and coercion are fragmented along existing social cleavages, politicians possess few incentives to enact reform.
Author: Michelle D. Bonner Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319728830 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 278
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This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy. Sometimes referred to as police violence or police repression, police abuse occurs in all democracies. It is not an exception or a stage of democratization. It is, this volume argues, a structural and conceptual dimension of extant democracies. The book draws our attention to how including the study of policing into our analyses strengthens our understanding of democracy, including the persistence of hybrid democracy and the decline of democracy. To this end, the book examines three key dimensions of democracy: citizenship, accountability, and socioeconomic (in)equality. Drawing from political theory, comparative politics, and political economy, the book explores cases from France, the US, India, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, Brazil, and Canada, and reveals how integrating police abuse can contribute to a more robust study of democracy and government in general.
Author: Robert Reiner Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 360
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An updated survey of the history, sociology and legal-political aspects of Britain's police force. Discussing the effects of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1986) and recent developments in police accountability, it looks at the current state of policing, reform initiatives and future trends.
Author: Stuart Lister Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113470884X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 255
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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: Floyd Millen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781472462688 Category : Languages : en Pages : 220
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In the context of ongoing police reform this path-breaking book draws insights from US policing in relation to governance, accountability and democratic representation. Exploring the significant influences of Britain on the system of policing that developed in the USA, this book critically appraises the influence of American politics and policing on the system of policing now evident and evolving in England and Wales. With a view to making recommendations for the future structure and makeup of policing in England and Wales and as the first term of directly elected police and crime commissioners comes to a close, Floyd Millen reviews the influences and the progress of police reforms, positing that seeking to enhance or recapture police legitimacy by combining the use of the ballot box to direct and influence policing has been shown in the USA to have many virtues, but also carries inherent and potentially irreconcilable challenges.
Author: Samuel E. Walker Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 1544339194 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 361
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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: John Bailey Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre ISBN: 0822972948 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 337
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The events of September 11, 2001, combined with a pattern of increased crime and violence in the 1980s and mid-1990s in the Americas, has crystallized the need to reform government policies and police procedures to combat these threats. Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas examines the problems of security and how they are addressed in Latin America and the United States. Bailey and Dammert detail the wide variation in police tactics and efforts by individual nations to assess their effectiveness and ethical accountability. Policies on this issue can take the form of authoritarianism, which threatens the democratic process itself, or can, instead, work to "demilitarize" the police force. Bailey and Dammert argue that although attempts to apply generic models such as the successful "zero tolerance" created in the United States to the emerging democracies of Latin America—where institutional and economic instabilities exist—may be inappropriate, it is both possible and profitable to consider these issues from a common framework across national boundaries. Public Security and Police Reform in the Americas lays the foundation for a greater understanding of policies between nations by examining their successes and failures and opens a dialogue about the common goal of public security.
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