Police powers in Canada : the evolution and practice of authority / / edited by R.C. Macleod and David Schneiderman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456230503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1994; ©1994
• ISBN: 1-282-01173-1; 9786612011733; 1-4426-7858-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.2/0971
• Soggetti: Police - Canada; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers presented at a conference held in Edmonton, Oct. 18-19, 1991.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Traditional Common-Law Constable, 1235–1829: From Bracton to the Fieldings to Canada -- 2. Power from the Street: The Canadian Municipal Police -- 3. The RCMP and the Evolution of Provincial Policing -- 4. Citizens’ Rights and Police Powers -- 5. Policing under the Charter -- 6. Reforming Police Powers: Who's in Charge? -- 7. Policing Aboriginal Peoples: The Challenge of Change -- 8. An Assessment of Strategies of Recruiting Visible-Minority Police Officers in Canada: 1985–1990 -- 9. The Police and Politics: The Politics of Independence -- 10. The Police and Political Science in Canada -- 11. Police and Politics: There and Back and There Again? -- 12. Police Accountability in Crisis Situations -- 13. Policing: From the Belly of the Whale
• Sommario/riassunto: The television spectacles of Oka and the Rodney King affair served to focus public disaffection with the police, a disaffection that has been growing for several years. In Canada, confidence in the police is at an all-time low. At the same time crime rates continue to rise. Canada now has the dubious distinction of having the second highest crime rate in ; the Western world.How did this state of affairs come about? What do we want from our police? How do we achieve policing that is consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? The essays in this volume set out to explore these questions. In their introduction, the editors point out that constitutional order is tied to the exercise of power by law enforcement agencies, and that if relations between the police and civil society continue to erode, the exercise of force will rise - a dangerous prospect for democratic societies.