Product details
- Categories: Foreign and Security Policy
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- ISBN: 9783031351242
- Publication Date: 11/03/2024
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 455
- Language: English
Summary
This book examines the timely issue of police stops as a public
and political issue, focussing on the European states. Contrary to much
other work it focuses on wider Europe and the social and political
context in which the police practice of stopping citizens emerges,
develops and can be curtailed. More specifically, the volume analyses
public controversies about police stops, i.e. events in which conflicts
emerge about how the performance of police stops is explained and
justified. This book stems from an EU COST Action research network on
Police Stops which engages academics and practitioners from 29
countries. It appeals to those in law, criminology and policing studies
with some potential for wider interest in cultural studies/history and
public policy/politics, as well as to practitioners in police scrutiny,
oversight and other professional bodies and in training organisations.