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Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies.
Policing Human Rights exposes how and why human rights law comes to be socially constituted, organizationally conditioned, and routinely interpreted and applied by police officers.
List of contents
- Part 1: Setting the Scene
- Introduction: Righting Policing
- 1: Towards a Sociological Approach to Human Rights Law
- Part II: Official Vernaculars: The Politics of Rights
- 2: The Official Police Voice
- 3: The Policing Board: Ethno-Political Tenors
- Part III: Routine Policing: Making Sense of Rights
- 4: Dirty Work: The Tactical Support Group
- 5: Community Work: Neighbourhood Policing Teams
- Part IV: Public Order Policing: The Rights of Protestors, Public and Police
- 6: Righting the Public Order Script
- 7: The Script in Action: Participation and Performance
- Part V: Police Custody: The Rights of Suspects
- 8: 'Arrest, Arrest, Arrest': Statutory Safeguards Under Pressure
- 9: Feeling the Pressure: Custody Officers' Decision to Detain
- Conclusion
About the author
Richard Martin is an Assistant Professor in Law at the London School of Economics. He conducts doctrinal and empirical research on the criminal justice system, human rights and public law. Richard was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and a Fellow at the Department of Law, London School of Economics. He has been a consultant for the Law Commission of England and Wales, Managing Editor of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog and is currently a Lord Denning Scholar at Lincoln's Inn, London. Richard's publications include commentaries and articles in the Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Criminal Law Review, Theoretical Criminology and Policing and Society.
Summary
Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies. Policing Human Rights exposes how and why human rights law comes to be socially constituted, organizationally conditioned, and routinely interpreted and applied by police officers.
