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UNINA9910814586503321 |
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Autore |
Skinns Layla |
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Titolo |
Police custody : governance, legitimacy and reform in the criminal justice process / / Layla Skinns |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-68117-5 |
1-283-54665-5 |
9786613859105 |
1-136-68118-3 |
0-203-81031-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Criminal justice, Administration of - Great Britain |
Detention of persons - Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Police Custody; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Introduction; Police custody and its purposes; Suspects' PACE rights and entitlements; Research on police custody in England and Wales: a short history; Police custody and the wider context; The analytical framework; Notes; 2. Governance and legitimacy in multi-professional police custody areas; Police custody values; Constitutional and institutional arrangements: the rules governing the police; Relational forms of governance; Police authority and legitimacy |
ConclusionNotes; 3. Cops, docs, 'DPs' and others: staff and suspects in the custody process; Roles and responsibilities; The suspects; Conclusion; Notes; 4. 'Down the block': the custody environment for staff and suspects; The police custody environment; In the cells; Access to the facilities - exercise, showers and food; Conclusion; Notes; 5. Access to rights and entitlements at the police station; Informing suspects of their rights at the police station; The right not be held incommunicado; The right to legal advice; Police interviews |
Detention reviews - 'you're not going anywhere until it's |
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done'Conclusion; Notes; 6. Plural policing and the police custody process; Plural policing in England and Wales; The power to use force and other roles and responsibilities; Plural policing and staffing arrangements; Police-police staff relationships; Plural policing and suspects; Accountability; Conclusion; Notes; 7. Multi-professionalism and the police custody process; Partnership working and police custody; Perceptions of multi-professional relationships; Assessing multi-professionalism: the promises and pitfalls |
Accountability and governanceConclusion; Notes; 8. Governance and legitimacy revisited; Constitutional and institutional governance of the police; Relational governance and multi-professional power relations; The use of authority by police and police staff: coercion or consent?; Suspect responses to staff authority; Police custody and its wider consequences; Conclusion; Notes; 9. The future of police custody; Improving police custody in the immediate term; Towards an agenda for future research; Ongoing assessment and reform; Note; Appendix: The research base; Note; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Police custody acts as an important gateway to the criminal justice process. Much is at stake here for both staff and suspects as what happens in police custody can have important consequences further down the line. This book offers a timely contribution to research on police custody, which has been largely neglected for the last decade, and it is the first to examine the growing role given to civilians employed by the police or by private security companies within police custody areas. The book draws on a mixed-method study of two custody areas, one publicly-run, and the other large |
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