Civilian Oversight of Policing : Governance, Democracy and Human Rights.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781847313034
- 363.2
- HV7936.C56C548 2000
Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Title verso -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Section One - Entrenching Civilian Oversight -- 1. The Politics of Civilian Oversight: Serious Commitment or Lip Service? -- 2. Race, Democracy and Law: Civilian Review of Police in Washington DC -- 3. Back to the Future: The Death of Civilian Review of Public Complaints Against the Police in Ontario, Canada -- Section Two - Evaluating Civilian Oversight -- 4. Institutional Structure vs Political Will: Albuquerque as a Case Study in the Effectiveness of Citizen Oversight of the Police -- 5. Evaluating the Performance of External Oversight Bodies -- 6. Evaluating the New Civilian Complaints Board in Israel -- 7. Evaluating Police Complaints Legislation: A Suggested Framework -- Section Three - Extending Civilian Oversight -- 8. Police Accountability Reform in Colombia: The Civilian Oversight Experiment -- 9. The South African Independent Complaints Directorate -- 10. Confronting a Culture of Impunity: The Promise and Pitfalls of Civilian Review of Police in Latin America -- 11. Accountability and Police Complaints in Northern Ireland: Leaving the Past Behind? -- 12. Called to Account: Civilian Oversight in the Palestinian Context -- Index.
This book looks at how civilian oversight bodies have been interpreted and implemented in a wide range of jurisdictions around the world.
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