Chief police officers' stories of legitimacy : power, protection, consent and control / Ian Shannon.
2022
HV8012 .S43 2022
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Title
Chief police officers' stories of legitimacy : power, protection, consent and control / Ian Shannon.
ISBN
9783030858797 (electronic bk.)
3030858790 (electronic bk.)
9783030858780
3030858782
3030858790 (electronic bk.)
9783030858780
3030858782
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-85879-7 doi
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HV8012 .S43 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.206/84
Summary
This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise power. Their beliefs, motivations, backgrounds, and cultures are examined. Light is cast on how they perceive power, coercion, control, policing purpose, gendered understandings, protecting people, vulnerability, policing by consent, discretion, operational independence, law and the oversight and political direction (or governance), and accountability of police. Chief officers used three legitimating narratives based on: protecting people particularly the most vulnerable policing by consent, and law and the oversight and political direction of police. These accounts are assessed. Damaged processes of police governance that risk undermining police leadership and legitimacy are revealed. Critically, chief officers understandings of legitimacy are found to be confused, conflicted, and, above all, convenient in supporting them in asserting a privileged position from which they can pursue their preferences for the use of power. Ian Shannon is a fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, and completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2018. From 1981 to 2013, he served as a police officer in three forces and he retired as a deputy chief constable. He was awarded the Queens Police Medal in 2013.
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Palgrave's critical policing studies.
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Legitimacy: A Contested Concept
3 Chief Police Officers Backgrounds and Motivations
4 Protecting People, Particularly the Most Vulnerable
5 Policing by Consent
6 Law and Governance
7 Conclusion.
2 Legitimacy: A Contested Concept
3 Chief Police Officers Backgrounds and Motivations
4 Protecting People, Particularly the Most Vulnerable
5 Policing by Consent
6 Law and Governance
7 Conclusion.