Forcing the issue: new labour, new localism and the democratic renewal of police accountability
Forcing the issue: new labour, new localism and the democratic renewal of police accountability
The purpose of this article is to evaluate proposals contained in the government’s Green Paper Policing: Building Safer Communities Together (Home Office 2003) and the White Paper Building Communities: Beating Crime (Home Office 2004) to re-invigorate the structure of police governance in the UK. After providing a brief overview of New Labour’s initial attempts to modernise British policing, I analyse why and how the broader political discourse of ‘new localism’ came to frame the unfolding debate about the need to revitalise police accountability. The article then offers a critical evaluation of the latest Home Office attempt to reorganise the democratic structure of police governance in the UK.
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McLaughlin, Eugene
06b690de-55d8-4167-9b81-3564463e40bc
December 2005
McLaughlin, Eugene
06b690de-55d8-4167-9b81-3564463e40bc
McLaughlin, Eugene
(2005)
Forcing the issue: new labour, new localism and the democratic renewal of police accountability.
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 44 (5), .
(doi:10.1111/j.1468-2311.2005.00392.x).
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to evaluate proposals contained in the government’s Green Paper Policing: Building Safer Communities Together (Home Office 2003) and the White Paper Building Communities: Beating Crime (Home Office 2004) to re-invigorate the structure of police governance in the UK. After providing a brief overview of New Labour’s initial attempts to modernise British policing, I analyse why and how the broader political discourse of ‘new localism’ came to frame the unfolding debate about the need to revitalise police accountability. The article then offers a critical evaluation of the latest Home Office attempt to reorganise the democratic structure of police governance in the UK.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 8 November 2005
Published date: December 2005
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/340124
ISSN: 0265-5527
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