Policing Distracted Driving : Contemporary Challenges in Roads Policing / / Leanne Savigar-Shaw and Helen Wells

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765481903321
• Autore: Savigar-Shaw Leanne
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2023]; ©2023
• ISBN: 3-031-43658-X
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 pages)
• Collana: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies
• Disciplina: 364.147
• Soggetti: Traffic violations; Traffic stops (Law enforcement)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Purpose -- Introduction -- The UK Roads Policing Context -- The Issue of Driver Distraction -- The Focus of this Book -- The Research -- Questionnaires -- Interviews -- Observations -- Chapter Synopsis -- References -- 2 The Mobile Phone Distraction Problem and Responses to It -- Introduction -- Technological Infatuation -- The Problem of Driver Distraction -- Driver Attitudes and Behaviour -- Legislative Responses to Driver Distraction in the UK -- Handheld Mobile Phone Use -- Alternative Distraction-related Legislation -- Policing and Recording Mobile Phone Use by Drivers -- Generating Compliance -- Instrumental Compliance -- Normative Compliance -- Educational Approaches -- Summary -- References -- 3 Keeping Up, Staying in Touch, Getting On -- Introduction -- The Certainty of Uncertainty -- Acceleration on the Roads -- Making the Most of Time -- Meeting Expectations -- Summary -- References -- 4 Navigating Risk -- Introduction -- The Unpredictability and Proliferation of Risk -- Risk on the Roads -- Road Risk and Its Experts -- The Risky 'Other' -- Legislating for Risk -- Experts with Lived Experience -- Summary -- References -- 5 The 'Law-Abiding Offender' -- Introduction -- Resisting Roads Policing -- Why Aren't They Out Catching Burglars? -- 'It's Not Dangerous When I Do It' -- Proper Laws and Other Laws -- 'Somebody Made Me Do It' -- Summary -- References -- 6 Legitimacy, ; Fairness, and Distracted Driving -- Introduction -- Legitimacy and Procedural Justice -- Fairness on the Roads -- Perceived Fairness of Roads Policing -- The Role of Crash Course in Generating Perceptions of Fairness -- Mobile Phone Behaviour Change -- Summary -- References -- 7 Conclusion -- Introduction -- Distraction, Driving and the Law -- Distraction, Driving, and the Twenty-First-Century Condition.; Distraction, Driving and the Law-Abiding Offender -- Distraction, Driving, and the Problem of Instrumentalism -- References -- Index.