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How People Judge Policing
Presents a profoundly original piece of research exploring how the public view the exercise of police powers, utilising short video-clips of real-life police incidents and then capturing the resulting discussions from a variety of partcicpants, rather than relying on the usual opinion surveys gauging approval or satisfaction.
| Author(s) | By P A J Waddington (Professor Emeritus, University of Wolverhampton; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics), Martin Wright (Academic Director, Global University Systems), Kate Williams (Senior Lecturer in Criminology,University of Wolverhampton) |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 208 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 23 Feb 2017 |
| Availability | Available |
Presents a profoundly original piece of research exploring how the public view the exercise of police powers, utilising short video-clips of real-life police incidents and then capturing the resulting discussions from a variety of partcicpants, rather than relying on the usual opinion surveys gauging approval or satisfaction.
1: The Public and the Police 2: Studying Public Attitudes to Police Behaviour 3: Consensus and Contention in Public Attitudes 4: Acting on Suspicion 5: Force 6: The Culture of the Public and the Police 7: Professional Policing 8: Summary and Conclu
P A J Waddington is Professor of Social Policy and Honorary Director of the Central Institute for the Study of Public Protection at the University of Wolverhampton. He has over 30 years of academic research and is the initiator of the BSc(Hons) Policing d
