A few, including Brown, LaFave, and Vandall, developed approaches to help manage the exercise of discretion. It is upon the foundation built by Brown, LaFave, and Vandall that this work is built.;The research involved the use of vignettes of enforcement incidents. Boulder County law ...
Abstract Police officers have a great deal of discretion in any given police-citizen encounter (Rydberg and Terrill in Police Q 13(1):92–120,2010). However, especially in use-of-force cases, it is a controversial facet of police work. Previously, scholars have pointed out the importance of...
This article shows that police officials use their discretion to construct lynching 鈥 during various stages of investigation and charging 鈥 to obscure and invisibilise the crime. This quotidian exercise of discretion is shaped by broader systemic problems in India's criminal justice system, ...
Social Problems Works and Discretion Subject: 🧑🤝🧑 Sociology Pages: 3 Words: 834 Rating: 4,9 Summary/Abstract In this paper, a sociological issue described by German Lopez emerges. The sociological aspect that arises from this article is that of the social… 👨🏻🦼 Com...
Police use of “force” is up to the discretion of each individual police officer, and with each action a multitude of consequences can occur. The public often gets enraged after a court justifies the use of force, but often individuals do not have the full facts or understand how the ...
Community-oriented, problem-oriented, and quality-of-life policing address crime and minority mistrust, with uncertain success. Police discretion is influenced partly by management philosophy, more by distinctive roles encompassing danger, authority, and capacity to employ coercion. Police culture values ...
It has always held Annual General Meetings, had an (unpaid) executive committee, and – as even spycop Bob Lambert admitted – had been ‘entirely lawful’ in pursuit of its aims: to promote the use of non-violent direct action to protect wildlife, and lobby for legal change. The HSA ...
Specialty Probation Officers as Street-Level Bureaucrats: Exploring How Discretion Is Perceived and Employed on a Mental Health Caseload: This study explores the perceptions of specialty mental health caseload probation officers and their use of discretion in day-to-day supervision of individ... B Ter...
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There is no discretion in these matters, and no grey areas – a dead person (in the UK, at least) does not have data protection rights because information relating to a dead person is, simply, not personal data. Even if the police thought, at the time of the disclosure, that Nicola ...