Police Powers and Accountability in a Democratic Society: Proceedings, Reports Presented to the 12th Criminological Colloquium (1999)The position of the police in both the old democracies and in societies in transition is affected by occasional conflicting legal and professional standards for police work, increasing public expectations, changing crime patterns, stricter standards of effectiveness and accountability and, frequently, inadequacies in the available financial and other resources. This publication contains papers on topics such as: the control of police powers; the prevention of police corruption; powers and accountability of private police; police and the public. |
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Introductory report | 5 |
Changing patterns of culture and its organisation of the police | 37 |
Police corruption and its prevention | 65 |
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