Civilian Oversight of Policing (eBook, PDF)

Governance, Democracy and Human Rights
Redaktion: Goldsmith, Andrew; Lewis, Colleen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How the police are policed is no longer just a domestic issue. The involvement of police,and other security forces, in systematic abuses of human rights in many developing countries, as well as in so called developed countries, has placed the control of police on a number of international agendas. More and more countries are experimenting with different forms of police accountability and many are turning to civilian oversight bodies in an attempt to improve the process.

This book examines recent experiences with, and prospects for, civilian oversight. It looks at how this relatively new method of police accountability has been interpreted and implemented in a wide range of jurisdictions around the world. While looking at recent experiences in countries which have used the civilian oversight process for some years (the United States of America, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and Australia), it also looks at recent attempts to establish civilian oversight bodies in South Africa, Israel, Central and South America and Palestine. Some chapters explain how, in several of these countries, oversight of police conduct is a fundamental governance issues, and relates to concerns about democratisation and rebuilding civil society. Other chapters deal with the complex issue of how to evaluate public complaints mechanisms and the political conditions that enable or frustrate the introduction and maintenance of effective civilian oversight.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847313034
• Artikelnr.: 52831953

Autorenporträt

Andrew Goldsmith is Professor of Law at Flinders University of South Australia. Dr Colleen Lewis is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Criminology,School of Political & Social Inquiry, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction (Andrew Goldsmith and Colleen Lewis) Section One - Entrenching
Civilian Oversight 1. The Politics of Civilian Oversight: Serious
Commitment or Lip Service? (Colleen Lewis) 2. Race, Democracy and Law:
Civilian Review of Police in Washington D.C. (Cheryl Beattie and Ronald
Weitzer) 3. Back to the Future: The Death of Civilian Review of Public
Complaints Against the Police in Ontario, Canada (Tammy Landau) Section Two
- Evaluating Civilian Oversight 4. Institutional Structure vs Political
Will: Albuquerque as a Case Study in the Effectiveness of Citizen Oversight
of the Police (Eileen Luna and Samuel Walker) 5. Evaluating the Performance
of External Oversight Bodies (David Brereton) 6. Evaluating the New
Civilian Complaints Board in Israel (Sergio Herzog) 7. Evaluating Police
Complaints Legislation: A Suggested Framework (Philip Stenning) Section
Three - Extending Civilian Oversight 8. Police Accountability Reform in
Colombia: The Civilian Oversight Experiment (Andrew Goldsmith) 9. The South
African Independent Complaints Directorate (Bronwen Manby) 10. Confronting
a Culture of Impunity: The Promise and Pitfalls of Civilian Review of
Police in Latin America (Rachel Neild) 11. Accountability and Police
Complaints in Northern Ireland: Leaving the Past Behind? (Mary O'Rawe and
Linda Moore) 12. Called to Account: Civilian Oversight in the Palestinian
Context (Beverly Milton-Edwards)