Police Powers and Citizens' Rights: Discretionary Decision Making in Police Detention (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice)

by Layla Skinns (Author), Layla Skinns (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2015

  $146.22

  Drawing on key theories about police powers as well as original empirical research, this book explores citizens' rights and police powers in comparative perspective, examining the links between the police and society and also what these links should be.
  
  Skinns moves beyond Packer's model of crime control and due process and considers the use of police powers with reference to socio-legal and sociological theories that explore the connection between the law, the police and wider society through a critical assessment of theories about police discretion; police powers, particularly coercion; police legitimacy, the law as rhetoric and ideology; police governance; and police powers, democracy and social justice