Overview
Custody visitors are volunteers who make unannounced visits to police custody blocks to check on the welfare of detainees. However, there is a fundamental power imbalance between the police and these visitors. This timely book offers detailed proposals for radically reforming custody visiting to make it an effective regulator of police behaviour.
Full Product Details
Author: John Kendall
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781447343516
ISBN 10: 1447343514
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 31 January 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The first detailed insight, from a uniquely fused practitioner and academic perspective, into custody visiting - a vital aspect of the police custody process Roxanna Dehaghani, Cardiff School of Law and Politics.
The first detailed insight, from a uniquely fused practitioner and academic perspective, into custody visiting - a vital aspect of the police custody process Roxanna Dehaghani, Cardiff School of Law and Politics A carefully researched book that praises the principle of custody visiting while revealing how the present system undermines the intentions of the scheme, and discusses how it could be greatly improved. Valuable. Diana Ellis QC John Kendall demonstrates the inadequacies of the current system comprehensively and systematically. The only reasonable response to his conclusions is to adopt them as soon as possible. Regan Peggs, Birmingham Law Society This innovative and objective study of the system of external supervision of police custody, and of its failure to let daylight in, should alert everyone concerned with the tension between authority and liberty. Sir Stephen Sedley, former Lord Justice of Appeal Thorough, critical, insightful - John Kendall uses original empirical analysis in one police force area to shine a light on the sometimes not so independent custody visitors inside police detention. Layla Skinns, University of Sheffield
The first detailed insight, from a uniquely fused practitioner and academic perspective, into custody visiting - a vital aspect of the police custody process Roxanna Dehaghani, Cardiff School of Law and Politics. John Kendall demonstrates the inadequacies of the current system systematically and comprehensively. The only reasonable response to his conclusions is to adopt them as soon as possible. Regan Peggs, Director, Birmingham Law Society
Author Information
John Kendall previously worked as a commercial solicitor. He was originally the sole author of Kendall on Expert Determination (5th edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2014). In retirement John worked as a custody visitor, and found it profoundly unsatisfactory. He undertook a self-funded research project and obtained access to the visitors, custody blocks, the police, and detainees. He was awarded a PhD for this research by the University of Birmingham, and this book is the result of that research.
