By P. Colquhoun.
Containing a detail of the Various crimes and misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention. the sixth edition, corrected and considerably enlarged. Acting as a Magistrate for the Counties of Middlesex, Surry, Kent, and Essex.—For the City and Liberty of Westminster, and for the Liberty of the Tower of London. (1806) 31 pages.
A Historical Sketch 1672-1916
By S. M. Edwardes. “A perusal of the official records of the early period of British rule in Bombay indicates that the credit of first establishing a force for the prevention of crime and the protection of the inhabitants belongs to Gerald Aungier, who was appointed Governor of he Island in 1669 and filled that office with conspicuous ability until his death in Surat in 1677.”
Oxford University Press (1923) 240.
THE UNKNOWN STORY AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR CRIMINOLOGY.
ISBN: 978-1-78735-617-7 (PDF)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787356177
Jeremy Bentham’s ideas on punishment are famous. Every criminology student learns about Bentham, and every criminologist contends with him, as advocate or opponent. This discourse concerns his ideas about punishment, namely with respect to legislation and the panopticon. Yet, scholars and students are generally ignorant of Bentham’s ideas on police. Hitherto, these ideas have been largely unknowable. Now, thanks to UCL’s Bentham Project, these ideas are public. Jeremy Bentham on Police celebrates this achievement by exploring the story of Bentham’s writings on police and considering their relevance to the past, present and future of criminology
Prepared for Mark and Elena Patterson. In memoriam Luke Patterson
.This report summarizes what is currently known about killings committed by police officers in the United States and identifies existing evidence about various ways to prevent them. A relatively large body of research on these topics exists, but these studies often suffer from methodological shortcomings, largely stemming from the dearth of available data on police killings. Recognizing the need for more-rigorous work to guide efforts to reform police—and, more specifically, to reduce police killings—this report presents work focused on the development of a research agenda, or a road map, to reduce police killings. The report, based on an extensive literature review as well as interviews with policing experts, presents a series of recommendations for areas in which research efforts may be most effective in helping inform policymaking and decisionmaking aimed at reducing police killings.
Police are one of the only institutions in the United States allowed to use force to coerce civilian compliance with laws and government decisions. In some cases, force—even fatal force—is needed to maintain the safety of the general public. But too often, excessive force is used against civilians, and this is the target of current police reform efforts in the United States. Sustained attention to and momentum toward reducing police killings had been lacking until May 2020, when the highly publicized murder of George Floyd was committed. Contributing to the current national conversation, this report summarizes what is currently known about killings committed by police in the United States and identifies existing evidence about various ways to prevent them.
RAND 2022. 80p.
By Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean
In the United States, the exercise of police authority—and the public’s trust that police authority is used properly—is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would trust the police more and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police. In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seems to offer relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory. A procedural justice model of policing is likely to be only loosely coupled with police practice, despite the best intentions, and improvements in procedural justice on the part of police are unlikely to result in corresponding improvements in citizens’ perceptions of procedural justice.
ISBN: 9780520292413. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.30
