Good Policing: Trust, Legitimacy and Authority

✍ Scribed by Mike Hough

Publisher: Policy Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 158
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Renowned criminologist Mike Hough illuminates the principles and practices of good policing in this important analysis of the police service’s legitimacy and the factors, such as public trust, that drive it. As concern grows at the growth in crimes of serious violence, he challenges conventional political and public thinking on crime and scrutinises strategies and tactics like deterrence and stop-and-search. Contrasting ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ approaches to policing and punishment, he offers a fresh perspective that stresses the importance of securing normative compliance. For officers, students, policy makers and anyone who has an interest in the police force, this is a valuable roadmap for ethical policing.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Good Policing: Trust, Legitimacy and Authority
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of figures, tables and boxes
About the author
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1 Introduction
Crime control and its regulation: the policy context
The book’s argument in a nutshell
Procedural justice and theories of policing
The shape of this book
2 Trust and legitimacy: the basic ideas
Defining legitimacy
What creates and shapes empirical legitimacy?
Early socialisation
Trust in the police
Social justice and political economy
The consequences of legitimacy: compliance and cooperation
Compliance, defiance and hard power traps
Towards a definition of good policing
Conclusions
3 The evidence: the power of fairness
Surveys of trust, legitimacy and compliance
The ESS
The ISRD3
Procedural justice and stop-and-search
Experimental research
Why is procedural justice so important?
Assessing the evidence
Conclusions
4 The policing of minority groups
The policing of visible ethnic minority groups
Attitudes to the police among migrant and visible minority groups: some evidence
Escaping from hard power traps
Conclusions
5 Embedding procedural justice in policing
Leadership
Organisational justice as a prerequisite for procedural justice in policing
Fostering self-legitimacy among front-line officers
Training in procedural justice
A policing degree: professionalisation and procedural justice
Conclusions
6 Ethics, justice and policing
Low-visibility techniques of persuasion and police legitimacy
Social marketing approaches
Nudges
Procedural justice strategies in policing
Ethical issues for low-visibility approaches to compliance
Ethical issues at an individual level
Ethico-political issues at an institutional and societal level
Resolving the ethical dilemmas of procedural justice
Conclusions
7 Closing thoughts
Competence, ethics and morality
Law, policing and morality
Procedural justice, human and social rights, and democratic values
Postscript: Policing the COVID-19 pandemic
The context
The regulations
Impact of the regulations
The legitimacy of police enforcement of the lockdown
Trust in government pandemic policy
Notes
References
Index
Back Cover

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