Chief Police Officers' Stories of Legitimacy

Power, Protection, Consent and Control
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-85881-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

Reihe: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies

This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise power. Their beliefs, motivations, backgrounds, and cultures are examined. Light is cast on how they perceive power, coercion, control, policing purpose, gendered understandings, protecting people, vulnerability, policing by consent, discretion, operational independence, law and the oversight and political direction (or governance), and accountability of police. Chief officers used three legitimating narratives based on: protecting people — particularly the most vulnerable — policing by consent, and law and the oversight and political direction of police. These accounts are assessed. Damaged processes of police governance that risk undermining police leadership and legitimacy are revealed. Critically, chief officers’ understandings of legitimacy are found to be confused, conflicted, and, above all, convenient in supporting them in asserting a privileged position from which they can pursue their preferences for the use of power.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shannon, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Legitimacy: A Contested Concept.- 3 Chief Police Officers’ Backgrounds and Motivations.- 4 Protecting People, Particularly the Most Vulnerable.- 5 Policing by Consent.- 6 Law and Governance.- 7 Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Shannon is a fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, and completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2018. From 1981 to 2013, he served as a police officer in three forces and he retired as a deputy chief constable. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in 2013.