Accountability of Policing

Stuart Lister is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds. His research interests focus on exploring the changes and continuities in the arrangement, provision, accountability and effectiveness of contemporary policing and security endeavours. He has worked previously at the Universities of Durham and Keele. Michael Rowe is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University. His research interests focus on the ethics and governance of policing, diversity in criminal justice, and offender desistance. He has taught at Victoria University, Wellington and at the University of Leicester.

1. Accountability of Policing, Stuart Lister & Michael Rowe 2. The Rise and Fall of "Stop and Account": Lessons for police accountability, Richard Young 3. Improving Police Behaviour and Police-Community Relations through Innovative Responses to Complaints, Tim Prenzler and Louise Porter 4. Getting Behind the Blue Curtain: Managing police integrity, Michael Rowe, Louise Westmarland and Courtney Hougham 5. Integrity, Accountability and Public Trust: Issues raised by the unauthorised use of confidential police information, Cindy Davids and Gordon Boyce 6. Electocracy with Accountabilities? The novel governance model of police and crime commissioners, John W. Raine 7. Power to the People? A social democratic critique of the coalition government's police reforms, Robert Reiner 8. Accountability, Policing and the Police Service of Northern Ireland: Local practice, global standards?, John Topping 9. Private Security and the Politics of Accountability, Adam White 10.Plural Policing and the Challenge of Democratic Accountability, Stuart Lister and Trevor Jones 11. Reflections on Legal and Political Accountability for Global Policing, Ben Bowling and James Sheptycki.