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.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Ali Malik
EAN: 9781447366072
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 0 g
HEIGHT: 234 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Bristol University Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-03-28
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GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
WIDTH: 156 cm
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Book Themes:
Police and security services, Crime and criminology, Police law and police procedures
Ali Malik is a Lecturer in Criminal Justice at 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.
