Police Powers and Citizens' Rights: Discretionary Decision-Making in Police Detention - Paperback

by Layla Skinns (Author)

This book provides a much-needed comparative perspective on police detention. It makes a significant contribution to debates about the links between police practices and neoliberalism. In particular, it examines the police, not just the prison, as a site of neoliberal governance.

Author Biography

Layla Skinns is a Reader in Criminology in the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield, having formerly worked and studied at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, King's College London. She has a longstanding interest in police and policing, in particular in how policing agents use their authority. A key focus of her research has been on police detention in England and Wales, but also in other parts of the anglophone world. In this setting, she is interested in police powers and their relationship with the law, police cultures and police discretion, and furthermore, how they impact on equality and state-citizen relations. She is also interested in how the public - particularly detainees - perceive the police, which links her research to discussions about police legitimacy and 'good' policing.