Recovering Police Legitimacy: A Radical Framework

by Rafe McGregor

Transatlantic policing is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy, epitomised by public responses to the murders of George Floyd and Sarah Everard during the COVID-19 pandemic. Legitimacy is lost when the police either fail to protect the public or rely on coercion rather than consent to achieve that protection. Recovering Police Legitimacy challenges conventional criminological, political, and public solutions to the problem...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032546417
• ISBN13: 9781032546414
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages