Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice

Regulation and Discretion in a Time of Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5099-4409-5
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

This open access book analyses the utilisation, regulation and legitimacy of police powers. Drawing upon six-years of ethnographic research in two police forces in England, this book uncovers the importance of time and place, supervision and monitoring, local policies and law. Covering a period when the police were under intense scrutiny and subject to austerity measures, the authors contend that the concept of police culture does not help us understand police discretion. They argue that change is a dominant feature of policing and identify fragmented responses to law and policy reform, varying between police stations, across different policing roles, and between senior and frontline ranks.

The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by University of Manchester Library.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pearson, Geoff

Rowe, Mike

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

I. Framing the Debate

II. Focus and Remit of this Book

2. In Search of 'Police Culture': Ethnographic Approaches to Studying the Police

I. Ethnographic Research

II. Fieldwork
III. Data and Analysis

3. Regulation and the Law

I. The Relationship between Policing and the Law

II. The Common Law Regulation of the Police

III. Legislation and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984

IV. The Human Rights Act 1998
V. Policy, Procedure, and Guidance

4. Power, 'Culture' and Discretion

I. Understandings of Discretion

II. Training

III. Supervision

IV. Bureaucracy

V. 'Culture' and Discretion

VI. The Police Career

5. On the Beat: Temporal and Geographical Influences on Police Discretion

I. The Archetypal Shift

II. Time

III. Place

IV. Austerity

V. The System

VI. Concluding Remarks and Recap

6. Stop and Account! Proactive Interactions with the Public

I. Stop and Account

II. Vehicle Stop Checks

III. Stop and Search

IV. Discrimination and the Targets of Police Engagement

V. The Evolution of Stop and Search?

7. Arrest and Detention

I. Police Understandings of the Power of Arrest

II. Determinants of the Use of Police Discretion to Arrest

III. Force Policy and Domestic Abuse

IV. The Role of the Custody Sergeant

V. The Decline of Arrest

8. Legitimacy and Accountability

I. Understanding Legitimacy and Accountability

II. Legitimacy in Practice

III. Reflections

9. Monitoring, Technology, and Recording of Crime

I. Remote Supervision

II. Categorisation

III. Recording

IV. Technology and Discretion

10. Uniform Change? Revisiting Policing, Regulation, and the Law
I. Our Argument So Far

II. Revisiting the Legal Regulation of Policing

III. What Sarge Says: Supervision and Monitoring

IV. 'Police Culture' and Uniform Change

V. Reform to Police Stops

VI. Best Use of Arrest

VII. Professionalisation

VIII. Prognosis

Über Autor(innen)

Pearson, Geoff
Geoff Pearson is Professor of Law at the University of Manchester, UK.

Rowe, Mike
Mike Rowe is Lecturer at the Liverpool Management School.

Geoff Pearson is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester.

Mike Rowe is Lecturer at the Liverpool Management School.