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Policing Human Rights: Law, Narratives, and Practice

Policing Human Rights: Law, Narratives, and Practice

Author: Richard Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198855125
Published In: June 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies. Across the world, police are now governed by human rights principles and increasingly detailed standards - from arrest and detention to the regulation of protest and the use of lethal force. Yet there has been remarkably limited research examining human rights as a central feature of contemporary police reform, rhetoric and regulation. Policing Human Rights breaks new ground by offering one of the first sociologically inspired and empirically grounded accounts of how officers encounter and experience human rights law in their everyday work. The substantive insights and associated arguments of the book are based on unprecedented fieldwork with Police Service of Northern Ireland, including interviews and focus groups with over one hundred police officers, from over twenty police stations and five departments. Adopting an interdisciplinary style of analysis that draws on sociology, anthropology and organizational studies, the book takes the reader on a tour of four sites of policing to expose how and why human rights law comes to be socially constituted, organizationally conditioned and routinely interpreted and applied by police officers. The book offers an insight into the function of human rights law in modern policing, exposing the visions and values police officers' express in their daily narratives, sensemaking and practices.

Part 1: Setting the Scene

Introduction: Righting Policing

1:Towards a Sociological Approach to Human Rights Law

Part II: Official Vernaculars: The Politics of Rights

2:The Official Police Voice

3:The Policing Board: Ethno-Political Tenors

Part III: Routine Policing: Making Sense of Rights

4:Dirty Work: The Tactical Support Group

5:Community Work: Neighbourhood Policing Teams

Part IV: Public Order Policing: The Rights of Protestors, Public and Police

6:Righting the Public Order Script

7:The Script in Action: Participation and Performance