MacKay's involvement in two cases in which men were charged under the laws which criminalised homosexual sex. The two cases illustrate the corrupting potential of "legislated morality" which is selectively enforced, and MacKay's willingness to misuse such discretionary powers.Evans, Richard...
of these critical appraisals have had a clear effect on public opinion, and, to some extent on police practice. A notable example has been the feminist critique of police practices in regard to rape victims and victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Similarly, research criticizing police...
As Ms Abebe knows, data collection for crime analysis goes beyond criminal files. She is looking at wider trends and non-obvious relationships, such as the fact that domestic abuse is more likely to occur in the time after a football match. She’ll be exploring evidence of red flag ...
Policing the police.The article discusses the involvement of police to the crimes occurred in Bolivia. It is claimed that since the conservative government took office in 1997, there were four police commanders who have engaged in corruption, abuse of power and linked with organized crimes. Base ...
He abuses the office, power, and trust and also violates the norms of policing therefore he is seen as being corrupt and deviant (Punch, 2009). Gilmartin (2006) explains that police officers are known to become corrupt as a result of entitlement, which is when they believe that the rules...
How does the U.S. Constitution protect against the abuse of power by those in authority? Why is the Citizenship Clause important? Why is criminal law considered public law? Why is the federal government considered a bureaucracy? Why is Miranda v. Arizona important?
Without police, the safety of the community is jeopardized. Without community support, police are dispossessed of their legitimacy and robbed of their effectiveness. This three-element definition of police makes it easy to understand why abuse of force by police is of such great concern. First, ...
Although much has improved over the past decade in the South African Police Service (SAPS) since the dark days of apartheid, a glaring fault line in the trans-formation process has been the high levels of police abuse of power and mis-conduct. This is manifest particularly as a challenge ...
However, when this force is used and abused, it creates problems. The public eye becomes weary of the police in many different ways for using excessive force to deescalate a situation. Excessive force and police brutality are often caused by depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), ...
Third, we must understand how discourses are related to cultural power. Discourses are the means by which individuals or groups convince others to consent to a certain ordering of society. By merging doctrinal analysis, identity theory and cultural studies, we arrive at a series of questions that...