This book provides a comprehensive overview of police governance in England and Wales. This volume (I) starts from the Anglo Saxon period onwards. Volume II covers reform and development of tripartite governance from 1979-2025. These volumes analyse the key mechanisms and procedures that have sought to provide for the control and accountability of police organisations to external bodies and the means through which the conduct and work performed by police personnel is regulated internally. They discuss and evaluate the key debates and developments that have underpinned changes to police governance and the social, economic and political context within which these have emerged. They bring together a wide variety of material that relates to historical and contemporary aspects of policing. They draw upon primary (as well as secondary) source material including the use of historical documents for the early chapters. They speak to students taking courses in criminology and criminal justice studies and also those specialising in policing and to practitioners.

Examines police governance and the development of supranational policing organisations such as Europol Covers key legislation that emerged during the nineteenth century in relation to policing Discusses historical alternatives to new, professionalised policing

Autorentext

Peter Joyce is Visiting Professor at Wrexham University, UK.

Wendy Laverick is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Policing at The University of Hull, UK.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The 'Old' policing system.- Chapter 2: Crime disorder and police reform in the eighteenth century.- Chapter 3: The reform of policing in the Metropolis, 1798-1863.- Chapter 4: The development of professional policing outside the Metropolis,1829-1856.- Chapter 5: Police governance1856-1964.- Chapter 6: The 1964 Police Act in operation: constabulary independence versus local accountability.- Chapter 7: New Public Management, pluralization and police governance, 1983-1997.- Chapter 8: Labour's reforms to police governance 1997-2010 334-395.- Chapter 9: Reforms to police governance The Coalition Government 2010-15.- Chapter 10: The policing of extremism, terrorism and transnational crime.- Chapter 11: The governance of discretion.- Chapter 12: Conclusion future directions for police governance.