'Good' Policing

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The very fact that policing involves the exercise of power backed up by the possibility of using force raises questions about whether policing can ever be ‘good’ or perhaps even ‘good enough’. Moreover, the existence of police discretion – that is, the police mandate to choose between different courses of action and inaction – also poses some challenges for ‘good’ policing, particularly in increasingly diverse and multi-cultural societies. These are the two main themes that are to be explored in this panel in relation to police custody and stop and search.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Criminal Justice Policy and Practice / 39. Policing and Law Enforcement

Individual Presentations

• 'Good’ Police Citizens? Ethnic Identities and the Impacts of Policing - Alpa Parmar, University of Oxford

• The Rise and Fall of Suspicionless Searches - Ben Bowling, King's College London; Estelle Marks, Kings College London

Chair

• Ben Bowling, King's College London

Discussant

• Joel Miller, Rutgers University