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Independent Police Accountability Bodies: Comparative Perspectives on Complaints Against the Police

Author: Anja Johansen et al.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032546360
Published In: August 2026
Format: Hardback
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This book provides a detailed comparative analysis of independent police complaints bodies (IPCBs) in Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK. It explores the distinctive political, cultural and institutional contexts shaping police accountability arrangements within each country, as well as the transnational dynamics behind the remarkable proliferation of IPCBs over the past three decades, assessing the prospects for future convergence around international standards.

Drawing on findings from the international project ‘Police Accountability: Towards International Standards?’, the book examines the inherent dilemmas and challenges in the everyday functioning and dynamics of IPCB reform. Each chapter presents integrated comparative analysis of key themes co-written by experts on police accountability in Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK. The scholars involved approach the topic from range of scholarly disciplines: police studies and public administration, law, sociology, human geography, and history. Its qualitative comparative analysis adds to the existing literature on IPCBs based on single-country research.

The book facilitates exchange of knowledge and experiences across political cultures and linguistic boundaries, revising theoretical perspectives and through its empirical findings providing scholars, complaints practitioners and rights activists with unique frameworks to contextualise and assess current and emerging IPCB models in any country or jurisdiction.

This book will be useful reading for all those engaged in policing, public administration, rights activism, and law and policymaking.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 International license.

1. Introduction: Independent Police Complaints Handling in International Comparative Contexts

Anja Johansen, Genevieve Lennon, Marc Alain.

2. Mapping the Landscapes of Independent Police Complaints Bodies: Institutional Frameworks and Resourcing

Marc Alain, Genevieve Lennon, Anja Johansen, Chikao Urnaka, Vicky Hébert Brassard, Marie-Theres Piening, Morgane Hérault.

3. Theories and Normative Concepts for Understanding and Comparing Independent Police Complaints Bodies

Christian Mouhanna (†), Hartmut Aden, Genevieve Lennon, Kent Roach, Marc Alain, Anja Johansen.

4. Institutional Context and Independence of Police Accountability Bodies: Between Theory and Practice

Hartmut Aden, Yoshiki Kobayashi, Genevieve Lennon, Christian Mouhanna (†).

5. Objectives of Independent Police Complaints Bodies.

Sonja John, Anja Johansen, Morgane Hérault, Koun Kim, Vicky Hébert Brassard.

6, Complaining Against the Police: Historical Perspectives across the 19th and 20th Centuries

Anja Johansen, Jacques de Maillard, René Lévy, Sonja John, Alexander Bosch, Massimiliano Mulone, Chikao Uranaka.

7. Dynamics of Reform: Independent Police Complaints Bodies Since the Turn of the Millennium

Anja Johansen, Jacques de Maillard, Alexander Bosch, Sonja John, René Lévy, Massimiliano Mulone, Chikao Uranaka.

8. Police Accountability Bodies: Institutional Competition or Cooperation?

Christian Mouhanna (†), Genevieve Lennon, Sonja John, Chikao Uranaka.

9. Investigative Powers of Independent Police Complaints Bodies and their Relationship with Criminal Proceedings

Tobias Singelnstein, Genevieve Lennon, Christian Mouhanna (†), Kent Roach.

10. Complainants in the Eyes of the Complaints Practitioners

Amy Long, Massimiliano Mulone, Marie-Theres Piening, Vicky Hébert Brassard.

11. Public Opinion and Independent Police Complaints Bodies: The Knowledge Conundrum.

Marc Alain, Jérémie Gauthier, Koun Kim, Marie-Theres Piening, Vicky Hébert Brassard.

12. New Technologies and Complaints against the Police

Morgane Hérault, Genevieve Lennon, Alexander Bosch.

13. The Dilemmas of Independent Police Complaints Bodies in Democracies

Genevieve Lennon, Marc Alain, Hartmut Aden.

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