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Book SynopsisDavid Dixon poses the questions: how do law and policing relate? and can police practices be significantly changed by means of legal regulation? In examining these questions, this book deals with issues which are at the heart of contemporary debates about policing. It contains empirical research from England and Australia in the context of the international policing literature, arguing that studies of policing need to be connected with debates and developmentselsewhere.
Trade ReviewIt provides an excellent grounding in some of the theoretical perspectives on law and policing, while at the same time providing a framework in which to consider the wide range of research on police powers * Mark Button Labour Campaign for Criminal Justice Newsletter 49 *
a well-informed, cogent, even magisterial, contribution to our understanding of both policing and law ... This is a fine book. It more than fulfils its ambition to combine theory, empirical research and policy analysis. It shows a proper regard for the sociological (and political) significance of unevenness and contigency. * Ian Loader, British Journal of Sociology. Vol 50 no3. *
Table of Contents1. Theories of Law in Policing ; 2. Police Powers: Law in the Books and Elsewhere ; 3. Policing by Law and Policing by Consent ; 4. Detention for Questioning in England and Wales ; 5. The Legal (Non)Regulation of Custodial Interrogation in New South Wales ; 6. Silent Suspects and Police Questions ; 7. Legality, Regulation and Policing
