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

Hardback

Main Details

Title Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice: Regulation and Discretion in a Time of Change
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Geoff Pearson
By (author) Mike Rowe
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:248
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9781509925377
ClassificationsDewey:342.420418
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Hart Publishing
Publication Date 9 July 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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