The Politics of Police Governance

Scottish Police Reform, Localism, and Epistocracy

Ali Malik (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2024
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-6607-2 (ISBN)

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This book analyses police reform in Scotland, demonstrating the key role experts can play in strengthening democratic accountability of the police to the communities they serve.

Making a unique contribution to the scholarship on democratic policing, this book adapts the concept of epistocracy to explore the role of knowledge and expertise in police governance and accountability.

A rigorous empirical analysis of the Scottish police governance arrangements following reform in 2013 is complemented with examples from other liberal democracies, situating the Scottish context in wider debates on democratic policing, localism, and the operational independence doctrine. The book provides a framework for knowledge-based working practices, showing how principles of democratic policing, such as equity and responsiveness, may be achieved in practice.

Ali Malik is Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds. He has previously led the policing degree apprenticeship programme at Northumbria University and served as Associate Inspector for HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland.

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – Developments in Police Governance: From Democracy to Epistocracy

Chapter 3 – Scottish Police Reform and Localism

Chapter 4 – Paradoxes and Dilemmas: Operational Independence and Internal Governance

Chapter 5 – Institutionalising Epistocracy

Chapter 6 – Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-6607-7 / 1447366077
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-6607-2 / 9781447366072
Zustand	Neuware