Laying Down the Law:The Police, the Courts and Legal Accountability [ 1]1

Dixon, Bill; Smith, Graham

doi:10.1006/ijsl.1998.0075

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“…Additionally, reformers have called for a more frequent and regular reliance on lawsuit-centered sanctions against police officers and departments (see, e.g., Harrison and Cragg 1991). Moreover-shades of adversarial legalism-some scholars have observed that the extent of litigation against the police is increasing significantly (Dixon and Smith 1998;Reiner 2000).…”

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The Judge over Your Shoulder: Is Adversarial Legalism Exceptionally American?

Epp¹

2003

Law and Social Inquiry

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Section: David Pickersgill Chairman Of the British Medical Associatimentioning

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The Judge over Your Shoulder: Is Adversarial Legalism Exceptionally American?

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2003

Law and Social Inquiry

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“…Civil legal action against police can be taken in three main ways: via judicial review of organisational decision-making; negligence actions for the conduct of police investigations; and actions against police officers and their employers for torts against civilians such as assault, false imprisonment, trespass, negligence and malicious prosecution (Dixon & Smith, 1998;McCulloch, 2002), and for breaches of other legal schemes such as anti-discrimination and administrative law.…”

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Civil Litigation Against Police in Australia: Exploring Its Extent, Nature and Implications for Accountability

Ransley¹,

Anderson²,

Prenzler³

2007

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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Much recent policing reform has been concerned with strengthening organisational and individual accountability through complaints, discipline systems and external oversight. Civil litigation against police has largely been ignored as an accountability measure. This research aimed to broaden the understanding of police litigation in Australia, and determine the implications for its use as an accountability mechanism. While the findings are not definitive, they generally conform with previous research outcomes that most cases initiated by civilians involve allegations of police abuse of power or process corruption. A new finding is that police sue their own organisations at about the same rate as they are sued by members of the public, although primarily for unfair dismissal. The results show a need for more detailed research, but highlight that civil litigation can form part of a regulatory web for identifying, controlling and preventing police misconduct.

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“…The Commissioner managed to claw back some of the ground lost in the courts following the Court of Appeal's introduction of damages guidelines (Thompson v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [1997] 2 All E.R. 762; Dixon and Smith, 1998) and the government responded to the crisis in police legitimacy by launching its police reform programme.…”

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A Most Enduring Problem: Police Complaints Reform in England and Wales

Smith

2005

J. Soc. Pol.

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This article examines police complaints reform in England and Wales during the course of the last 40 years. In that time, four separate complaints systems have been in operation and each has been established at the end of a reform cycle characterised by stages of mounting public concern, appointment of formal inquiries, the legislative process and inception. Recurrent themes identified over the decades have been the trend towards independence, under-representation of complainants’ interests, the longevity of the reform process, and changing police priorities. It is argued that marginalisation of complainants’ interests in the reform process is the principal reason for the endurance of the police complaints problematic.

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Laying Down the Law:The Police, the Courts and Legal Accountability [ 1]1

Cited by 14 publications

References 8 publications

The Judge over Your Shoulder: Is Adversarial Legalism Exceptionally American?

The Judge over Your Shoulder: Is Adversarial Legalism Exceptionally American?

Civil Litigation Against Police in Australia: Exploring Its Extent, Nature and Implications for Accountability

A Most Enduring Problem: Police Complaints Reform in England and Wales

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