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Regulating police detention : voices from behind closed doors /
Custody visitors are volunteers who make unannounced visits to police custody blocks to check on the welfare of detainees. However, there is a fundamental power imbalance between the police and these visitors. This timely book offers detailed proposals for radically reforming custody visiting to mak...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Policy Press shorts. Research.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; REGULATING POLICEDETENTION; Contents; Tables and photograph; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Visiting the state's secret places; The key issues; Police power and the ideology of custody visiting; Volunteering; Background, motivation and funding; Research methods; The criminal process in the custody block; Detention in police custody; How custody visiting operates; Custody visiting as a regulator of police conduct; Conclusion; 2. Gutting a good idea; Michael Meacher MP; The Brixton riots and the Scarman Report.
- The policy of the Home Office and of the police: the 1986 CircularThe Lambeth lay visitors; Deaths in custody; Introduction of the statutory scheme; Operation of the statutory scheme; Conclusion; 3. Getting the visitors on side; Socialisation; The visitors and the Police and Crime Commissioner; Orientation; Probationary experience of the custody block; Team meetings; Visitors' attitudes; Changes in visitors' attitudes; Deaths in custody; Conclusion; 4. Does custody visiting achieve anything?; Effectiveness; Whether the visits took place, and the frequency and pattern of visiting.
- Whether the police behaved differently towards detainees because they knew that custody visitors might arrive at any time, without notice, or because a visit was actually in progressWhether visits caused police behaviour to be changed, either at the time or subsequently; Whether the reporting system caused police behaviour to be changed; Whether custody visiting enabled the public to know what was happening in custody blocks; United Nations standards and the requirement of expertise; Official claims for custody visiting; Conclusion; 5. Could custody visiting be made to work?; The key issues.
- The link with deaths in custodyScope for further research; Recommendations for reform; How to make the reforms a reality; References; Index.