Stop and search and police legitimacy /

Stop and search and police legitimacy / Ben Bradford.

'Stop and search' is a form of police-citizen interaction that is confrontational, often stressful for those involved, and potentially damaging to the relationship between police and public. The extent to which police officers use their power to stop and perhaps search members of the publi...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Bradford, Ben (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 42.
Subjects:
Police > Great Britain.
Searches and seizures > Great Britain.
Police-community relations > Great Britain.
Crime prevention > Great Britain.
Crime prevention.
Police.
Police-community relations.
Searches and seizures.
Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Police stops and the production of order
  • The problem of legitimacy
  • The social and geographic distribution of police stops (in theory)
  • The social and geographic distribution of police stops (in practice)
  • The distribution of stop and search: evidence from police force areas
  • Stops, trust and legitimacy
  • Policing as classificatory action
  • Conclusion.

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