Lightning Talk: Police Accountability

Session Submission Type: Lightning Talk Session

Abstract/Description

Police are held accountable by their own organization as well as the communities they serve. Police accountability can best be described as having front-end and back-end mechanisms. Front-end mechanisms of accountability include organizational policies, training, supervision, body-worn cameras, and early-intervention systems. Back-end mechanisms include internal affairs and occasionally the court system facilitates the accountability process by hearing criminal and civil cases regarding police behavior. Some of these mechanisms overlap and often are used in tandem to bolster accountability. This lightning talk highlights issues surrounding police accountability both domestically and internationally.

Sub Unit

• Area XIII. Lightning Talks

Individual Presentations

• Police Crime - Philip Matthew Stinson, Bowling Green State University; John Liederbach, Bowling Green State University; Adam Watkins, Bowling Green State University

• Chasing Change in Camden: Police Reform in One of America’s Most Violent Cities - John Shjarback, Rowan University

• Police Accountability and Stress - Carol Archbold, North Dakota State University

• Internal Threats to Policing - Christopher Harris, University of Massachusetts Lowell

• Police Misconduct Typologies - Janne Gaub, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• Courts and Police Misconduct Investigations - Ilana Friedman, University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law

• Public Perceptions of Police Accountability - Richard Moule, Jr., University of South Florida

Chair

• Thomas Mrozla, University of South Dakota