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- Develops an alternative complainant-centred narrative on police complaints and officer accountability for misconduct
- Traces the history of complaints against officers serving with the Metropolitan Police between formation of the force in 1829 and codification of the complaints system under the Police Act 1964
- The first of a two volume study, provides the historical background to an enduring police policy dilemma that has seen the formation of four independent oversight bodies in the last half-a-century
Part of the book series: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies (PCPS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
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Manchester, UK
Graham Smith
About the author
Graham Smith is Senior Lecturer in Regulation in the School of Law at the University of Manchester, UK and co-founder of ManReg: The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance and Public Law. Graham has close to 40 years of experience in the field of police misconduct and officer accountability as a complainant, civil rights activist, consultant, researcher and international expert on human rights law. In recent years he has advised governments on behalf of the Council of Europe on criminal justice reform and combating impunity for torture and ill-treatment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: On the Wrong Side of The Law
Book Subtitle: Complaints Against Metropolitan Police, 1829-1964
Authors: Graham Smith
Series Title: Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48222-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48221-3Published: 26 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48224-4Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48222-0Published: 25 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2730-535X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5368
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 216
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Policing, Victimology, Human Rights and Crime , Human Rights, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Violence and Crime