Accountability Of Policing (Routledge Frontiers Of Criminal Justice)

Over the last decade we have witnessed important changes in how those networks, institutions and individuals tasked with delivering organised forms of policing and security are held to account. The extent and pace of these changes raises a pressing need for on-going academic research, analysis and debate. Bringing together a range of leading scholars, this book offers a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of the shifting themes of accountability within policing. This book explores accountability' in a broad sense, bringing to the surface the various functions associated with the concept as well as the way it is invoked and interpreted in different debates in different contexts. Constitutional and legal governance of 'high' policing are assessed alongside aspects of operational accountability, such as public complaints and internal forms of regulation. It offers a broad and comprehensive approach to the subject and addresses issues of accountability in various contexts, including the policing of 'territories', 'communities' and 'cybercrime'.

• | Author: Stuart Lister, Michael Rowe
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Aug 14, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 254 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0415715334
• | ISBN-13: 9780415715331