The Ambiguity of Accountability: Deaths in Custody, and the Regulation of Police Power

• Main Author: FINDLAY, Mark
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1994
• Subjects: Criminal Procedure; Law and Society
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2007; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3959/viewcontent/AmbiguityAccountabilityPolice_1994_CICJ.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Policing is power. Police authority relies on transactions or relationships of power and influence. The nature of that authority depends on, and takes its form from specific environments of opportunity. Opportunity is, in turn, designated by the aspirations for such relationships, and structures and...