Policing Human Rights

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Martin takes the reader "on a tour of four sites of policing to learn how and why human rights law comes to be socially constituted, organizationally conditioned and routinely interpreted and applied by police officers." * Law & Social Inquiry * It is rare to come across a book that tells you, in detail, how to do your job to the very highest standards; not just a recipe for me but for senior officers in the PSNI and, perhaps, for others in policing in the rest of the UK and beyond... An excellent and very imaginative contribution to understanding how police officers consider human rights "on the job" and what factors affect their approach and their judgments. * John Wadham, Doughty Street Chambers and Human Rights Advisor to the Northern Ireland Policing Board (European Human Rights Law Review, 2022, Issue 3.) * Policing Human Rights is distinctive and innovative as the first significant law in policing work which takes account of the human rights environment. Dr Martin shows how police officers make sense of their human rights obligations and how the policing environment has been radically altered by these normative requirements. His contribution is not just to criminal justice but to public law much more generally. He has the eye and ear of an outstanding qualitative researcher. His combination of legal and sociological contextual skills place Policing Human Rights in a different league from the work of others. It will become a standard reference on law in policing. * Professor David Dixon, University of New South Wales *