TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradford,Ben
TI  - Stop and search and police legitimacy
T2  - Routledge frontiers of criminal justice
SN  - 9780415708647 (hbk.) :
U1  - 363.2'52 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Police
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Searches and seizures
KW  - Police-community relations
KW  - Crime prevention
KW  - Crime
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - 'Stop and search' is a form of police-citizen interaction that is confrontational, often stressful for those involved, and potentially damaging to the relationship between police and public. The extent to which police officers use their power to stop and perhaps search members of the public is intimately linked not only to the present-day context of policing but also to longer term patterns in the aims of policing, the ends used to achieve them, and ultimately to the ideology of policing in England and Wales. 'Stop and Search and Police Legitimacy' draws upon both police-administrative and survey-based data to examine what has for many years been one of the most highly charged and contested aspects of police practice
ER  -