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The politics of police governance : Scottish police reform, localism, and epistocracy / Ali Malik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malik, Ali, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--Scotland.
- Police.
- Police administration--Scotland.
- Police administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 190 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book analyses police reform in Scotland, demonstrating the key role experts can play in strengthening democratic accountability of the police to the communities they serve.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- The Politics of Police Governance: Scottish Police Reform, Localism, and Epistocracy
- Copyright information
- Table of Contents
- List of figures and table
- List of abbreviations and definitions
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Governance literature and police governance
- Democracy in policing
- Policing and policing research in Scotland
- Police reform
- Background and methodology
- Negotiating access
- Networking as a scribe
- Thematic analysis
- The structure of the book
- 2 Developments in police governance: from democracy to epistocracy
- 'Governance' and 'accountability': conceptual clarification
- Mechanisms of police governance
- Hierarchical and bureaucratic
- Retrospective and explanatory accountability
- Performance and target-based accountability
- Network-based governance and horizontal accountability
- Conceptualising epistocracy
- Why not epistocracy in police governance?
- Trends in police professionalisation
- Limitations of democratic governance
- Discussion: the case for epistocracy in police governance
- Conclusion
- 3 Scottish police reform and localism
- From local beginnings to tripartism
- Formalisation of tripartism
- Regionalism and a shift towards Scottish centralism
- Road map to the 2012 Act
- Scottish police reform in the wider context
- Financial oversight
- National policing requirements
- Expertise, skills, and capacities
- Localism in the 2012 Act
- Scottish Police Authority as an intermediary
- Discussion: reimagining localism in police governance
- 4 Paradoxes and dilemmas: operational independence and internal governance
- From constabulary to operational independence
- The Reform Act 2012: omissions and missed opportunities
- Operational independence following reform
- Perceptions of stakeholders.
- The role of the civil servants
- Internal governance and police complaints post-Sarah Everard
- Sarah Everard and the Casey Review
- Dame Elish Angiolini Review
- Discussion: redrawing the boundaries
- 5 Institutionalising epistocracy
- Broad composition
- Delegated authority
- Autonomy
- Deliberative proceduralism
- Discussion: epistocracy with a deliberative ideal
- 6 Conclusion
- Epistocracy in police and policing governance
- Scottish police reform and localism
- Epistocracy in other governance settings
- Concluding thoughts
- Pre-reform
- Scottish Government
- The Scottish Parliament
- HMICS
- HMICS and Audit Scotland
- Audit Scotland
- Post-reform
- The Scottish Parliament: Justice Sub-Committee on Policing
- MSPs
- The Scottish Police Authority
- Police Scotland
- Local Scrutiny Committees (As part of the partners in scrutiny research)
- Other
- Appendix A: List of official sources analysed for the doctoral study (2013-17)
- Appendix B: Breakdown of interviewees
- Appendix C: SIPR-SPA-Police Scotland Think Tanks Terms of Reference
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4473-6610-7
- 1-4473-6609-3
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