- Abstract:
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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...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Accepted manuscript
- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Pages:
- 219-237
- Series:
- Routledge International Handbooks
- Host title:
- The Routledge Handbook of Criminal Justice Ethics
- Publication date:
- 2016-07-07
- Pubs id:
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pubs:585446
- URN:
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uri:4d53f409-c4cc-4182-8a84-a1ef207de23a"
- UUID:
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"uuid:4d53f409-c4cc-4182-8a84-a1ef207de23a"
- Local pid:
- info:fedora/pubs:585446
- ISBN:
- 978-0415708654
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- Copyright holder:
- Routledge
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
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This is an
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
Book section
Enabling and constraining police power: On the moral regulation of policing
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