Democratic Policing and Accountability
Global Perspectives
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published on 25. November 1999
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-7546-1173-8 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents a collection of essays which explore one of the most important and under-discussed areas of human rights abuses worldwide - human rights violations by the police. The chapters bring together an array of diverse perspectives which address the issues and challenges that the accountability of police conduct poses for a liberal democracy. In addressing this matter, each contributor draws on their own experience of police accountability. The book draws on the experiences of the Canada-Brazil Technical Co-operation Project on Institutional Violence, carried out during the period of 1996-99. The project was managed by the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa and the Nucleo de Estudos da Violencia at the University of Sao Paulo. As a result, many of the contributions focus on aspects dealing with police accountability in Canada and Brazil.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 158 mm
Width: 226 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-1173-8 (9780754611738)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, Canada
Content
Introduction - global perspectives on democratic policing -challenges, problems and solutions; raising the social capital of policing and nations - how can professional policing and civilian oversight weaken the circle of violence?; better policing, more human rights - lessons from civilian oversight; police accountability in hemispheric perspective; democratic limits on law enforcement - squaring the circle; law enforcement with the community; accountability - the search for a theoretical framework; police and community in Rio de Janeiro - an historical overview; human rights and democratic accountability - towards useful Brazil-Canada dialogue on addressing institutional violence; proposal - interactive policing - the Brazilian experience; the police leader and his relations with the community security councils in Sao Paulo.