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- Examines the concept of legitimacy through the accounts of chief police officers
- Critically assesses their understanding of their right of police to exercise power
- Complements the highly quantitative focus of the recent procedural justice literature
Part of the book series: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies (PCPS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book adds to knowledge about chief police officers in England and Wales by exploring their understandings of the right of police to exercise power. Their beliefs, motivations, backgrounds, and cultures are examined. Light is cast on how they perceive power, coercion, control, policing purpose, gendered understandings, protecting people, vulnerability, policing by consent, discretion, operational independence, law and the oversight and political direction (or governance), and accountability of police. Chief officers used three legitimating narratives based on: protecting people — particularly the most vulnerable — policing by consent, and law and the oversight and political direction of police. These accounts are assessed. Damaged processes of police governance that risk undermining police leadership and legitimacy are revealed. Critically, chief officers’ understandings of legitimacy are found to be confused, conflicted, and, above all, convenient in supporting them in asserting a privileged position from which they can pursue their preferences for the use of power.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Ian Shannon
About the author
Ian Shannon is a fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, and completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool in 2018. From 1981 to 2013, he served as a police officer in three forces and he retired as a deputy chief constable. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in 2013.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Chief Police Officers’ Stories of Legitimacy
Book Subtitle: Power, Protection, Consent and Control
Authors: Ian Shannon
Series Title: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85879-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85878-0Published: 25 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85881-0Published: 26 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85879-7Published: 24 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-535X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5368
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 254
Topics: Policing