Democratic Policing and Accountability: Global Perspectives

by Errol Mendes (Editor)

This text presents a collection of essays which explore one of the most important and under-discussed areas of human rights abuses worldwide - human rights violations by the police. The chapters bring together an array of diverse perspectives which address the issues and challenges that the accountability of police conduct poses for a liberal democracy. In addressing this matter, each contributor draws on their own experience of police accountability.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999