Police Reform from the Bottom Up
What role can and should police unions and rank-and-file officers play in driving and shaping police reform? Police unions and their members are often viewed as obstructionist and conservative, not as change agents. But reform efforts are much more likely to succeed when they are supported by the rank-and-file, and line officers have knowledge, skills and insights that can be invaluable in promoting reform. Efforts to involve police unions and rank-and-file officers in police reform are less common than they should be, but they are increasing, and there is a good deal to learn about policing, police reform and participatory management from the efforts made to date.
In this pioneering volume, an international, cross-disciplinary collection of scholars and police unionists address a range of neglected questions, both empirical and theoretical, about the place of police officers themselves in the process of reform what it has been, and what it could be. They provide a fresh view of police reform as occurring from the bottom up rather than the top down. This book will be highly useful for practitioners and scholars who have a serious interest in the possibilities and limits of police organisational change.
This book is based on special issues of Police Practice and Research and Policing and Society.
Monique Marks is an Associate Professor in the Community Development Programme at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She has published widely about police unions, police labour rights, and police organisational change. She has also conducted participatory action research with police unions in South Africa and in Australia for the past 15 years.
David Sklansky is the Yosef Osheawich Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Faculty Chair of the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. He has written extensively about policing and criminal procedure.
Police Practice and Research
Series Editor: Dilip K. Das
International Police Executive Symposium
Police Practice and Research is a series of books based on special issues of the pioneering peer-reviewed journal Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, which presents current and innovative police research as well as operational and administrative practices from around the world. It seeks to bridge the gap in knowledge that exists regarding who the police are, what they do, and how they maintain order, administer laws, and serve their communities. The journal is published in association with the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES), which brings police researchers and practitioners together to facilitate cross-cultural, international and interdisciplinary exchanges for the enrichment of the policing profession.
Policing: Toward an Unknown Future
Edited by John Crank & Colleen Kadleck
Innovative Possibilities
Global Policing Research and Practice
Edited by Les Johnston & Clifford Shearing
Police Responses to People with Mental Illnesses
Global Challenges
Edited by Duncan Chappell
Police Reform from the Bottom Up
Officers and their Unions as Agents of Change
Edited by Monique Marks and David Sklansky
Police Reform from the Bottom Up
Officers and their Unions as Agents of Change
Edited by
Monique Marks and David Sklansky
Series edited by
Dilip K. Das
First published 2012
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Contents
Monique Marks and David Sklansky
David H. Bayley
Hans Toch
Brigitte Steinheider and Todd Wuestewald
Jennifer Wood, Jenny Fleming and Monique Marks
David Thacher
Samuel Walker
Jan Berry, Greg OConnor, Maurice Punch and Paul Wilson
Mark Finnane
Roy J. Adams
Wesley G. Skogan
Jerome H. Skolnick
William Ker Muir
Roy J. Adams is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Relations at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He was formerly Director of McMasters Theme School on International Justice and Human Rights and is Steering Committee Chair of the Society for the Promotion of Human Rights in Employment.
David H. Bayley is Distinguished Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at University at Albany State University of New York. He is a specialist in international criminal justice, with particular interest in policing. He has done extensive research in India, Japan, Australia, Canada, Britain, Singapore, and the United States. His work has focused on strategies of policing, the evolution of police organizations, organizational reform, accountability, and the tactics of patrol officers in discretionary law-enforcement situations.
Jan Berry was the first woman chairman in the history of the Police Federation of England and Wales. After becoming a police officer in 1973 she performed a variety of duties from beat officer to detective, rose quickly through the ranks, and was promoted to the rank of Chief Inspector in 1997. She became a local Federation representative in 1987 and in 2002 was elected Chairman of the Police Federation, a position she held through 2008. From 2008 to 2010 she served as the UKs Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing Advocate. She is currently a professional policing advisor and advocate in the UK.
Mark Finnane is Professor of History and an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow at Griffith University, Australia. His publications on the history of policing include Police and Government: Histories of Policing in Australia
