Civilian oversight of policing
Subtitle: governance, democracy, and human rights
By: edited by Andrew J. Goldsmith and Colleen Lewis.
Contributors: Goldsmith, Andrew John.; Lewis, Colleen.
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Police -- Complaints against.; Police administration -- Citizen participation.; Police-community relations.; Civilian review boards (Police administration).
Table of contents: title: The politics of civilian oversight: serious commitment or lip service? -- Colleen Lewis; title: Race, democracy and law: civilian review of police in Washington D.C. -- Cheryl Beattie and Ronald Weitzer; title: Back to the future: the death of civilian review of public complaints against the police in Ontario, Canada -- Tammy Landau; title: Instituional structure vs political will: Albuquerque as a case study in the effectiveness of citizen oversight of the police -- Eileen Luna and Samuel Walker; title: Evaluating the performance of external oversight bodies -- David Brereton; title: Evaluating the new civilian complaints board in Israel -- Sergio Herzog; title: Evaluating police complaints legislation: a suggested framework -- Philip Stenning; title: Police accountability reform in Colombia: the civilian oversight experiment -- Andrew Goldsmith; title: South African Independent Complaints Directorate -- Bronwen Manby; title: Confronting a culture of impunity: the promise and pitfalls of civilian review of police in Latin America -- Rachel Neild; title: Accountability and police complaints in Northern Ireland: leaving the past behind? -- Mary O'Rawe and Linda Moore; title: Called to account: civilian oversight in the Palestinian context -- Beverly Milton-Edwards.