Challenges of Policing Democracies: A World Perspective - Hardcover

Das, Dilip; Otwin, Marenin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9057005581 ISBN 13: 9789057005589

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

In this text, the editors analyze the diverse situations that police forces operate under and the challenges that they face in different kinds of democracies. This cross-cultural comparison of various systems highlights the universal observation that police are a anomaly in a democracy and explores how various influences-for example, large-scale social violence, a zeal for crime fighting, and vulnerability to temptation-often find police incapable of behaving in a democratic manner. Challenges of Policing Democracies goes beyond just showing the similarities and differences of the policing challenges democratic societies face, it also examines the responses and remedies adopted by police in various countries at different levels of democratic achievement and how every society struggles with the challenges of preserving democratic values without sacrificing the effectiveness of policing.

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Dilip K. Das

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9057005581
• ISBN 13: 9789057005589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388