Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice: Regulation and Discretion in a Time of Change

by Geoff Pearson and Mike Rowe

Book Overview

Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice analyses the utilisation, regulation and legitimacy of police powers. Drawing upon six-years of ethnographic research in two police forces in England, this book uncovers the importance of time and place, supervision and monitoring, local policies and law. Covering a period when the police were under intense scrutiny and subject to austerity measures, the authors contend that the concept of police culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509944095
• ISBN13: 9781509944095
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"