Police Street Powers and Criminal Justice

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
Table of Cases and Practice Notes
Table of Statutes, Secondary Legislation, and ECHR Articles
1. Introduction
	I. Framing the Debate
	II. Focus and Remit of this Book
2. In Search of ‘Police Culture’: Ethnographic Approaches to Studying the Police
	I. Ethnographic Research
	II. Fieldwork
	III. Data and Analysis
3. Regulation and the Law
	I. The Relationship between Policing and the Law
	II. The Common Law Regulation of the Police
	III. Legislation and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
	IV. The Human Rights Act 1998
	V. Policy, Procedure, and Guidance
4. Power, ‘Culture’ and Discretion
	I. Understandings of Discretion
	II. Training
	III. Supervision
	IV. Bureaucracy
	V. ‘Culture’ and Discretion
	VI. The Police Career
5. On the Beat: Temporal and Geographical Influences on Police Discretion
	I. The Archetypal Shift
	II. Time
	III. Place
	IV. Austerity
	V. The System
	VI. Concluding Remarks and Recap
6. Stop and Account! Proactive Interactions with the Public
	I. Stop and Account
	II. Vehicle Stop Checks
	III. Stop and Search
	IV. Discrimination and the Targets of Police Engagement
	V. The Evolution of Stop and Search?
7. Arrest and Detention
	I. Police Understandings of the Power of Arrest
	II. Determinants of the Use of Police Discretion to Arrest
	III. Force Policy and Domestic Abuse
	IV. The Role of the Custody Sergeant
	V. The Decline of Arrest
8. Legitimacy and Accountability
	I. Understanding Legitimacy and Accountability
	II. Legitimacy in Practice
	III. Reflections
9. Monitoring, Technology, and Recording of Crime
	I. Remote Supervision
	II. Categorisation
	III. Recording
	IV. Technology and Discretion
10. Uniform Change? Revisiting Policing, Regulation, and the Law
	I. Our Argument So Far
	II. Revisiting the Legal Regulation of Policing
	III. What Sarge Says: Supervision and Monitoring
	IV. ‘Police Culture’ and Uniform Change
	V. Reform to Police Stops
	VI. Best Use of Arrest
	VII. Professionalisation
	VIII. Prognosis
Bibliography
Index