Governing police practice
Limits of the New Accountability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2139160 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Chan (0000-0001-7901-957X, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), Janet B L Chan |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 251-270 |
| Publication date | 1999-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.1999.00251.x |
| PMID | 15260025 |
| OpenAlex | W2028645038 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 41 |
| References cited | 27 |
The advent of public‐sector managerialism has brought with it a new principle of police accountability in Western democracies such as Australia and Britain. The new accountability gives emphasis to managerial rather than legal or public‐interest standards, favours external oversight combined with self‐regulation rather than centralized control, and promotes risk management rather than rule enforcement. This article makes use of the experience of an Australian police force to show that the new accountability has not been successful in holding police accountable, while elements of the old accountability have re‐emerged to dominate public debates. It is argued that in the area of police governance, the neo‐liberal state does not necessarily pursue a coherent strategy of ‘acting at a distance’ (cf. Miller and Rose 1990), partly because of the inability of accountability technologies to deliver substantially the promised policy outcomes and partly because of the sensitivity of its political arm to the public's moral outrage against corruption (cf. Garland 1996)
Accountability · Corporate governance · Criminology · Economics · Enforcement · Language change · Law and economics · Management · Managerialism · Outrage · Political science · Politics · Public sector · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Public Administration
The Politics of Police Accountability
The Technological Game
The Blue Line on Thin Ice
Is It Who You Know? A Qualitative Exploration of Informal Relationships in Policing
The showability of policing
Wellbeing, occupational justice and police practice
Scandinavian police reforms
Tracing the Diffusion of Policing Governance Models from the British Isles and Back Again
Beyond ‘oversight’
The need to create a narrative
Policing the police
Criminal Futures
The “thinning” blueline
Prejudice in Police Profiling
The social uses of DNA in the political realm or how politics constructs DNA technology in the fight against crime
A new focus for accountability
Policing marginal spaces
Ethical Integrity in Leadership and Organizational Moral Culture
Make believe
Making sense of police reforms
The prospective detective
Algorithmic prediction in policing
Security in the age of networks
Budgetary control of Australian police services and the new governance of security
Policing Diversity
Citizen oversight of independent police services
Frightened Mandarins
Policing the Risk Society
Changing Police Culture
Taming the System
Economic Rationalism in Canberra
The triangle model of responsibility
Post-Social Criminologies Some Implications of Current Political Trends for Criminological Theory and Practice
Introducing Policework
Keeping the Peace
The Concept of Public Management and the Australian State in the 1980s
The pursuit of absolute integrity
Above the Law
Organizational police deviance
The Limits of the Sovereign State
A Public Management for All Seasons
The Case for the Prosecution
Political power beyond the State
Accounts
The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government
Post-Keynesian policing
Governing economic life
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,64 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |