
Police and Government Relations
Who's Calling the Shots?
University of Toronto Press
Will be published approx. on 28. April 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-8020-9423-0 (ISBN)
Description
Questions of police governance, accountability and independence have been subjected to thorough research before. That the issue still draws critical attention more than twenty years after the McDonald Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police suggests that understanding and a resolution to the issue still eludes us. Despite the modifications to police practice that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has brought, there is still concern over the degree of independence the police exercise, and debate over where the line between legitimate government direction of the police and illegitimate political interference should be drawn.
Police and Government Relations explores the question of police governance and independence from a number of different points of view. Editors Margaret E. Beare and Tonita Murray offer multi-disciplinary, comparative, and case-study methodologies written by scholars from law, political science, and criminology to illustrate the diversity of opinion that exists on the topic and to explore how the operating tension between police independence and democratic governance and accountability has played out, both in Canada and other countries. This book does not attempt to find final answers; its goal is to provide a framework for a continuing discussion that may lead to helpful and workable recommendations for the future. It serves as an academic and intellectual contribution to an important matter of public policy.
Police and Government Relations explores the question of police governance and independence from a number of different points of view. Editors Margaret E. Beare and Tonita Murray offer multi-disciplinary, comparative, and case-study methodologies written by scholars from law, political science, and criminology to illustrate the diversity of opinion that exists on the topic and to explore how the operating tension between police independence and democratic governance and accountability has played out, both in Canada and other countries. This book does not attempt to find final answers; its goal is to provide a framework for a continuing discussion that may lead to helpful and workable recommendations for the future. It serves as an academic and intellectual contribution to an important matter of public policy.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
726 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-9423-0 (9780802094230)
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Persons
Margaret E. Beare is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
Tonita Murray is an independent researcher and police reform consultant.
Tonita Murray is an independent researcher and police reform consultant.
Content
ForewordAcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction MARGARETE. BEARE and TONITA MURRAYThe Overview: Four Models of Police-Government Relations KENT ROACH * Commentary by R.H. SimmondsThe Oversight of Executive-Police Relations in Canada: 'The Constitution, the Courts, Administrative Processes, and Democratic Governance' LORNE SOSSIN * Commentaries by A. Alan Borovoy and W. Wesley PuePolice-Government Relations in the Context of State-Aboriginal Relations GORDON CHRISTIE * Commentary by Toni Williams and Kim MurrayThe Idea of the Political 'Independence' of the Police: International Interpretations and Experiences PHILIP STENNING Accountability Mechanisms: Legal Sites of Executive-Police Relations -- Core Principles in a Canadian Context DIANNE MARTIN * Commentary by Susan Eng Steeped in Politics: The Ongoing History of Politics in Policing MARGARET E. BEARE * Commentary by Tonita MurrayEpilogue: Extracts from the Ipperwash Inquiry TranscriptsAppendix: Discussion Paper and Questions Used to Guide the Ipperwash Deliberations on Government-Police RelationsBibliographyIndex