Chief Police Officers' Stories of Legitimacy - Power, Protection, Consent and Control (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise power. Their beliefs, motivations, backgrounds, and cultures are examined. Light is cast on how they perceive power, coercion, control, policing purpose, gendered understandings, protecting people, vulnerability, policing by consent, discretion, operational independence, law and the oversight and political direction (or governance), and accountability of police. Chief officers used three legitimating narratives based on: protecting people - particularly the most vulnerable - policing by consent, and law and the oversight and political direction of police. These accounts are assessed. Damaged processes of police governance that risk undermining police leadership and legitimacy are revealed. Critically, chief officers' understandings of legitimacy are found to be confused, conflicted, and, above all, convenient in supporting them in asserting a privileged position from which they can pursue their preferences for the use of power.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Ian Shannon
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-085878-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Emergency services > Police & security services
LSN:	3-03-085878-2
Barcode:	9783030858780

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