The politics of policing between force and legitimacy

This volume in the series Sociology of crime, law, and deviance edited by Mathieu Deflem addresses contemporary issues of policing with a focus on the characteristics of police power as a coercive force in society and its continued need for legitimacy in a democratic social order. The book brings sc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Deflem, Mathieu
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
SeriesSociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 21.
Subjects
Police > Political aspects.
Police ethics.
Police misconduct.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781786350299
ISSN1521-6136 ;
DOI10.1108/S1521-6136201621
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 313 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Fair policing from the inside out / Maarten Van Craen
  • Enhancing police legitimacy by promoting safety culture / Jordan C. Pickering, David A. Klinger
  • Policing through third parties : increasing coercion or improving legitimacy? / Janet Ransley
  • Three pillars of police legitimacy : procedural justice, use of force, and occupational culture / William Terrill, Eugene A. Paoline III, Jacinta M. Gau
  • Conservatives and the constabulary in Great Britain : cross-dressing conundrums / Robert Reiner
  • Investigations on the legitimacy of the Swiss police : actual debates and empirical evidence / Silvia Staubli
  • Politicization and legitimacy of police in India / Arvind Verma
  • Explaining police attitudes toward the use of force : the case of Buenos Aires / Nicole E. Haas
  • Improving police legitimacy by measuring all that matters : reflections from the United States and France / Jack R. Greene ... [et al.]
  • Mental illness, race, and policing / Melissa Thompson ... [et al.]
  • Police shootings in black and white : exploring newspaper coverage of officer-involved shootings / Charles F. Klahm IV, Jordan Papp, Laura Rubino
  • Paradise lost : white flight and the construction of a criminogenic origin myth / Aaron Roussell, Jason Dunbar
  • Citizen journalism and police legitimacy : does recording the police make a difference? / Ashley K. Farmer, Ivan Y. Sun
  • Watching the watchers : theorizing cops, cameras, and police legitimacy in the 21st century / Kirk Miller
  • The politics of private policing : no force and no legitimacy? / Massimiliano Mulone
  • The triangle of recruitment, selection, and training in 21st century policing / Maria Haberfeld.

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