Overview

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.

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Author:   Geoff Pearson (The University of Manchester, UK) ,  Mike Rowe (University of Liverpool Management School, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9781509944095

ISBN 10:   1509944095
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   27 January 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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

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Geoff Pearson is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester. Mike Rowe is Lecturer at the Liverpool Management School.

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