The Politics of Police Governance: Scottish Police Reform, Localism, and Epistocracy
This book analyses police reform in Scotland, demonstrating the key role experts can play in strengthening democratic accountability of the police to the communities they serve.
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Bristol
Policy Press
2024
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| In: | Jahr: 2024 |
| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book analyses police reform in Scotland, demonstrating the key role experts can play in strengthening democratic accountability of the police to the communities they serve. Front Cover -- The Politics of Police Governance: Scottish Police Reform, Localism, and Epistocracy -- Copyright information -- Table of Contents -- List of figures and table -- List of abbreviations and definitions -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Governance literature and police governance -- Democracy in policing -- Policing and policing research in Scotland -- Police reform -- Background and methodology -- Negotiating access -- Networking as a scribe -- Thematic analysis -- The structure of the book -- 2 Developments in police governance: from democracy to epistocracy -- 'Governance' and 'accountability': conceptual clarification -- Mechanisms of police governance -- Hierarchical and bureaucratic -- Retrospective and explanatory accountability -- Performance and target-based accountability -- Network-based governance and horizontal accountability -- Conceptualising epistocracy -- Why not epistocracy in police governance? -- Trends in police professionalisation -- Limitations of democratic governance -- Discussion: the case for epistocracy in police governance -- Conclusion -- 3 Scottish police reform and localism -- From local beginnings to tripartism -- Formalisation of tripartism -- Regionalism and a shift towards Scottish centralism -- Road map to the 2012 Act -- Scottish police reform in the wider context -- Financial oversight -- National policing requirements -- Expertise, skills, and capacities -- Localism in the 2012 Act -- Scottish Police Authority as an intermediary -- Discussion: reimagining localism in police governance -- Conclusion -- 4 Paradoxes and dilemmas: operational independence and internal governance -- From constabulary to operational independence -- The Reform Act 2012: omissions and missed opportunities -- Operational independence following reform -- Perceptions of stakeholders. |
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| Physische Details: | 1 online resource (199 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781447366096 |