How People Judge Policing

by P.A.J. Waddington, Kate Williams, Martin Wright

When people witness occasions when police use their powers to investigate crime and arrest offenders, how do those members of the public assess what they have seen? This book reports research in which a variety of groups from the West Midlands watched short video-clips of such real-life incidents and then discussed their appraisal amongst themselves. What emerges from those discussions is that the practice of policing is deeply controversial. On most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198718888
• ISBN13: 9780198718888
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"