| Description |
1 online resource |
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Policy press shorts research |
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Policy Press shorts. Research.
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The link with deaths in custodyScope for further research; Recommendations for reform; How to make the reforms a reality; References; Index |
| Summary |
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 make it an effective regulator of police behaviour |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-148) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 14, 2018) |
| Subject |
Detention of persons -- England
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Detention of persons -- Wales
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Police power -- England
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Police power -- Wales
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Detention of persons.
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Police brutality.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Police power
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Detention of persons
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Police brutality
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Wales
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1447343689 |
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9781447343684 |
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9781447343714 |
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1447343719 |
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9781447343691 |
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1447343697 |
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9781447343707 |
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1447343700 |
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