RT Article
T1 An Assessment of How Rights Are Read and Exercised at a Police Station in Spain
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 28
IS 4
SP 641
OP 659
A1 Fernández-Molina, Esther
A1 Montero‑Molera, Alicia
A2 Montero‑Molera, Alicia
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839952059
AB The European Union (EU) has recently reinforced its directives on the legal safeguards that should be guaranteed for individuals in police custody. This reform process has underlined the importance of detainees being informed of the exact reason for their detention and their procedural rights. This study explores the process by which police inform individuals of their rights in Spain now that implementation of the new European rules is mandatory. Our findings suggest that the police meet their obligation to read the detainee’s rights but fail to ensure that these rights are understood. In addition, it has been found that the different individuals involved, that is, detainees, police officers and lawyers, have different expectations about the process of detention, which, on occasions, severely complicates the observation of some procedural safeguards.
K1 Detainees
K1 Police Custody
K1 Professional culture
K1 Right to information
K1 Right to legal counsel
DO 10.1007/s10610-021-09482-7