Complaints Against the Police: The Trend to External Review

Summary: This book is comprised of a collection of specially commissioned papers from contributors from Australia, Great Britain, Canada, the United States, and Northern Ireland. The study examines some linking themes between systems dealing with complaints against the police in different countries, including the structural factors ensuring the dynamism of reform attempts in this area, and the role of law in dealing with orga...nizational misconduct. This provocative and contentious book fills a significant gap in the literature of police studies, and should prove an enormous influence in the continuing discussion about the greater public accountability of police forces throughout the world. [read more]