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Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice: Regulation and Discretion in a Time of Change

Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice: Regulation and Discretion in a Time of Change

Name: Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice: Regulation and Discretion in a Time of Change
Brand: Hart Publishing
SKU: 9781509925377
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Author: Geoff Pearson; Mike Rowe
ISBN: 9781509925377

Edited by Geoff Pearson · Mike Rowe

Hart Publishing July 2020

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ISBN-13: 9781509925377
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: July 2020
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book examines the outcomes of a five-year ethnographic study of two North of England police forces; the prism through which to revisit the question of the regulation and legitimacy of police powers. Central to this study is the degree to which discretion still plays a central role in the exercise of these powers. It shows how this reliance on discretionary powers is fraught with difficulty. The authors demonstrate that in order to effectively reform the exercise of these powers, the police service should be regarded as having a unique culture, where change and uncertainly are commonplace. It is only by recognising the unusual working practises of policing, can meaningful reform be achieved; making this book required reading for policy makers in the field of criminal justice.

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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