Malik The Politics of Police Governance

Scottish Police Reform, Localism, and Epistocracy
1. 1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6608-9
Verlag: Policy Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 198 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Making a unique contribution to the scholarship on democratic policing, this book adapts the concept of epistocracy to explore the role of knowledge and expertise in police governance and accountability.
A rigorous empirical analysis of the Scottish police governance arrangements following reform in 2013 is complemented with examples from other liberal democracies, situating the Scottish context in wider debates on democratic policing, localism, and the operational independence doctrine. The book provides a framework for knowledge-based working practices, showing how principles of democratic policing, such as equity and responsiveness, may be achieved in practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malik, Ali

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Strafverfahrens- und -prozessrecht, Strafverteidigung und Opferschutz
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – Developments in Police Governance: From Democracy to Epistocracy
Chapter 3 – Scottish Police Reform and Localism
Chapter 4 – Paradoxes and Dilemmas: Operational Independence and Internal Governance
Chapter 5 – Institutionalising Epistocracy
Chapter 6 – Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Ali Malik is Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds. He has previously led the policing degree apprenticeship programme at Northumbria University and served as Associate Inspector for HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland.