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Good Policing Trust, Legitimacy and Authority.

Renowned criminologist Mike Hough considers how the police service might build trust, legitimacy and compliance with the law in this important book. He challenges conventional thinking on crime, contrasts 'hard' and 'soft' policing styles and offers a fresh approach that secures...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hough, Mike
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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