Chief police officers' stories of legitimacy : power, protection, consent and control / / Ian Shannon

• Autore: Shannon Ian
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.20684
• Soggetto topico: Police chiefs
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• 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 ; Withdrawn Consent -- Police Performance Management and Consent -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Law and Governance -- A Right to Exercise Power Based on Law -- Legality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.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise power. Their beliefs, motivations, backgrounds, and cultures are examined. Light is cast on how they perceive power, coercion, control, policing purpose, gendered understandings, protecting people, vulnerability, policing by consent, discretion, operational independence, law and the oversight and political direction (or governance), and accountability of police. Chief officers used three legitimating narratives based on: protecting people particularly the most vulnerable policing by consent, and law and the oversight and political direction of police. These accounts are assessed. Damaged processes of police governance that risk undermining police leadership and legitimacy are revealed. Critically, chief officers' understandings of legitimacy are found to be confused, conflicted, and, above all, convenient in supporting them in asserting a privileged position from which they can pursue their preferences for the use of power. Ian Shannon is a fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, and completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2018. From 1981 to 2013, he served as a police officer in three forces and he retired as a deputy chief constable. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 2013.
• Titolo autorizzato: Chief police officers' stories of legitimacy
• ISBN: 3-030-85879-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910523792603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave's critical policing studies.