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Enabling and constraining police power: On the moral regulation of policing
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In this paper we consider some of the ethical challenges inherent in the regulation of discretionary police power. Discretion is central to police policy and practice, but it also provides a level of freedom that opens up the space for injustice and inequity, and this is seen most vividly in recent debates about unfairness and racial profiling in the distribution and experience of police stops in the US and UK. How to regulate discretionary power is a challenging question, and this is especia...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Routledge Publisher's website
- Pages:
- 219-237
- Series:
- Routledge International Handbooks
- Host title:
- Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics
- Publication date:
- 2016-07-07
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585446
- ISBN:
- 9780415708654
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- Copyright date:
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book section of a journal article published by Routledge in The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics on 2016-07-07, available online: https://www.routledge.com/9780415708654
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