Recovering Police Legitimacy

A Radical Framework
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-54641-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 356 g

Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sarah Everard during the COVID-19 pandemic. Legitimacy is lost when the police either fail to protect the public or rely on coercion rather than consent to achieve that protection. Recovering Police Legitimacy challenges conventional criminological, political, and public solutions to the problem by approaching it from the bottom up, beginning with policing as a practice constituted by a unique set of excellences, skills, and characteristics.

The author draws on his experience as a police officer and on the serial fictions of James Ellroy, David Peace, and Nic Pizzolatto to characterise the practice in terms of heroic struggle, edgework, absolute sacrifice, and worldmaking. These characteristics provide an analytic tool for revolutionising our understanding of the relations among policing as a situated practice, public protection, and police legitimacy and for identifying the different levels at which legitimacy is undermined. His conclusion is that recovery is possible but will be slow in pace and incomplete in scope.

Written accessibly for students, police officers, policymakers, scholars, and anyone with an interest in police legitimacy, this is a groundbreaking study of a pressing social problem.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcgregor, Rafe

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The Problem 1. The Crisis of Police Legitimacy 2. Practice, Institution, and Context Part 2: Methodology 3. Autoethnography 4. Critical Case Studies Part 3: Case Studies 5. Southern California, 2013-2014 6. West Yorkshire, 1980 7. Los Angeles, 1947-1958 Part 4: The Solution 8. Public Protection and Police Legitimacy 9. Reviewing the Evidence 10. The Radical Framework

Über Autor(innen)

Rafe McGregor is Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University, UK, prior to which he spent fifteen years in the police and the prison service.