Chief Police Officers' Stories of Legitimacy : Power, Protection, Consent and Control

• Autore: Shannon Ian
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2022; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- Chief Police Officer Literature -- The Scholarly and Policing Terrain Covered and Contributed To -- Methodology -- Structure of the Book -- References -- 2: Legitimacy: A Contested Concept -- Hobbes -- Utilitarianism -- Weber -- Durkheim -- Beetham -- Perspectives That Challenge Claims to the Legitimacy of the State and Its Institutions -- Procedural Justice -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Chief Police Officers' Backgrounds and Motivations -- Chief Police Officers' Backgrounds -- Chief Police Officers: A Liberal Elite? -- The Career Paths and Socialisation, Development and Training of Chief Police Officers -- Chief Police Officers' Motivations -- A Power/Service Paradox? -- Gendered Understandings of Power -- How Chief Police Officers Reflect on the Use of Power and the Right to Use It -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Protecting People, Particularly the Most Vulnerable -- Methodology -- Vulnerability, a Developing Discourse -- Vulnerability, a Complex Concept -- The Development of a Police Discourse of Vulnerability and Associated Policy -- Politically Privileged Threats -- Protecting the Vulnerable as a Response to Police Failures -- Divergent Police Responses to Vulnerability -- Policing Purpose and Vulnerability -- Ambiguous and Hidden Vulnerability -- Vulnerability and Prioritisation -- Threat, Harm and Risk: Identifying and Responding to Vulnerability -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Policing by Consent -- The Endurance and Meaning of 'Policing by Consent' -- Chief Police Officers' Accounts of Policing by Consent -- Hazy Consent -- Communicating, Conversations and Accountability -- Neighbourhood/Community Policing -- Gauging and Building Consent -- Informed Consent or Coerced Compliance? -- Listening to People with Little Power -- Procedural Justice. ; Withdrawn Consent -- Police Performance Management and Consent -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Law and Governance -- A Right to Exercise Power Based on Law -- Legality and Legitimacy -- Contemporary Police Governance -- Chief Police Officers' Accounts of Governance -- Operational Independence After the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 -- Chief Police Officers' Concerns About Career Security and Progression -- Discussion of Police Governance -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Conclusion -- Overview -- Legitimacy: A Contested Concept -- Chief Police Officers' Backgrounds and Motivations -- Protecting People, Particularly the Most Vulnerable -- Policing by Consent -- Law and Governance -- How an Archetypal Chief Police Officer Understands the Right to Exercise Power -- Confused -- Conflicted -- Convenient -- Implications for the Current and Future State of Policing -- Areas for Further Research -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Chief Police Officers' Stories of Legitimacy
• ISBN: 9783030858797; 9783030858780
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910510536403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies