1st Edition
Police Custody Governance, Legitimacy and Reform in the Criminal Justice Process
By Layla Skinns
Copyright 2011
272 Pages
by
Willan
272 Pages
by
Willan
272 Pages
by
Willan
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Police custody acts as an important gateway to the criminal justice process. Much is at stake here for both staff and suspects as what happens in police custody can have important consequences further down the line. This book offers a timely contribution to research on police custody, which has been largely neglected for the last decade, and it is the first to examine the growing role given to... Read more
Foreword, 1. Introduction 2. Governance and Legitimacy in Multi-professional Police Custody Areas 3. Cops, Docs, DPs and Others: Staff and Suspects in the Custody Process 4. 'Down the Block': The Custody Environment for Staff and Suspects 5. Access to Rights and Entitlements at the Police Station 6. Plural Policing and the Police Custody Process 7. Multi-professionalism and the Police Custody Process 8. Governance and Legitimacy Re-visited 9. The Future of Police Custody
Biography
Layla Skinns is a Lecturer in Criminology in the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield and formerly the Adrian Socio-Legal Research Fellow, Darwin College and Teaching Associate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.
