Recovering Police Legitimacy - A Radical Framework

Recovering Police Legitimacy challenges conventional criminological, political, and public solutions to the problem of legitimacy. Written accessibly for students, police officers, policymakers, scholars, and anyone with an interest in police legitimacy, this is a groundbreaking study of a pressing social problem.

List of contents

Part 1: The Problem 1. The Crisis of Police Legitimacy 2. Practice, Institution, and Context Part 2: Methodology 3. Autoethnography 4. Critical Case Studies Part 3: Case Studies 5. Southern California, 2013-2014 6. West Yorkshire, 1980 7. Los Angeles, 1947-1958 Part 4: The Solution 8. Public Protection and Police Legitimacy 9. Reviewing the Evidence 10. The Radical Framework

About the author

Rafe McGregor is Reader in Criminology at Edge Hill University, UK, prior to which he spent fifteen years in the police and the prison service.

Summary

Recovering Police Legitimacy challenges conventional criminological, political, and public solutions to the problem of legitimacy. Written accessibly for students, police officers, policymakers, scholars, and anyone with an interest in police legitimacy, this is a groundbreaking study of a pressing social problem.

Product details

• Authors: Rafe McGregor, Rafe (Edge Hill University Mcgregor
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032546407
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254640-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LAW / Criminal Procedure, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Police & security services, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Police and security services, Causes and prevention of crime, Police law & police procedures, Police law and police procedures