Politics of Police Governance

Scottish Police Reform, Localism, and Epistocracy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-03-28
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:444 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:Bristol University Press
ISBN:9781447366072

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Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

“This ground breaking and timely study provides not only a compelling analysis of contemporary police governance in Scotland, but a strongly argued case for the values of epistocracy rather than democracy to be at the centre of future police governance arrangements.” Nicholas R. Fyfe, Robert Gordon University

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 – IntroductionChapter 2 – Developments in Police Governance: From Democracy to EpistocracyChapter 3 – Scottish Police Reform and LocalismChapter 4 – Paradoxes and Dilemmas: Operational Independence and Internal GovernanceChapter 5 – Institutionalising EpistocracyChapter 6 – Conclusion