Pyramids or sandcastles? Regulating police conduct in Ireland
Pyramids or sandcastles? Regulating police conduct in Ireland
Responsive regulation advances the idea that overseers should act cautiously against misconduct, imposing increasingly harsher methods in a phased approach depending on the response of the errant actor. Responsive regulation is assessed here in relation to the Irish policing model since 2007, seeking to determine whether it has been and remains a suitable way to deal with police misconduct that has emerged time and again in that jurisdiction. Using complaint data, it is argued that police overseer treatment of low-level and serious misconduct has not met the expectations of responsive regulation. Further, there has been no evident police commitment to distinguish praiseworthy police officer performance in line with a later version of responsive regulation. Both issues have implications for retention of responsive regulation as a guiding theory for continued police oversight and reform.
responsive regulation, Ireland, police conduct
1027-1043
Moss, Brian
2d1ac95e-d17d-4e4d-9067-fa96f2ef08f2
2020
Moss, Brian
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Abstract
Responsive regulation advances the idea that overseers should act cautiously against misconduct, imposing increasingly harsher methods in a phased approach depending on the response of the errant actor. Responsive regulation is assessed here in relation to the Irish policing model since 2007, seeking to determine whether it has been and remains a suitable way to deal with police misconduct that has emerged time and again in that jurisdiction. Using complaint data, it is argued that police overseer treatment of low-level and serious misconduct has not met the expectations of responsive regulation. Further, there has been no evident police commitment to distinguish praiseworthy police officer performance in line with a later version of responsive regulation. Both issues have implications for retention of responsive regulation as a guiding theory for continued police oversight and reform.
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Pyramids or sandcastles
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Accepted/In Press date: 28 June 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 10 July 2019
Published date: 2020
Keywords:
responsive regulation, Ireland, police conduct
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Local EPrints ID: 434847
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/434847
ISSN: 1043-9463
PURE UUID: d526a9b4-bb07-458e-bf60-49de0784a764
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