Police and Government Relations

by Beare, Margaret E.; Murray, Tonita

• ISBN13: 9780802091529
• ISBN10: 0802091520
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-30
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

Questions of police governance, accountability and independence have been subjected to thorough research before. That the issue still draws critical attention more than twenty years after the McDonald Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police suggests that understanding and a resolution to the issue still elude us. Despite the modifications to police practice that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has brought, there is still concern over the degree of independence the police exercise, and debate over where the line between legitimate government direction of the police and illegitimate political interference should be drawn.Police and Government Relations explores the question of police governance and independence from a number of different points of view. Editors Margaret E. Beare and Tonita Murray offer multi-disciplinary, comparative, and case-study methodologies written by scholars from law, political science, and criminology to illustrate the diversity of opinion that exists on the topic and to explore how the operating tension between police independence and democratic governance and accountability has played out, both in Canada and other countries. This book does not attempt to find final answers; its goal is to provide a framework for a continuing discussion that may lead to helpful and workable recommendations for the future. It serves as an academic and intellectual contribution to an important matter of public policy.Contributors Margaret E. Beare Alan Borovoy Gordon Christie Susan Eng Dianne Martin Tonita Murray Kim Murray W. Wesley Pue Kent Roach Robert Simmonds Lorne Sossin Philip Stenning Toni Williams

Author Biography

Tonita Murray is a consultant and gender advisor to the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs and former director of the Canadian Police College.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 3
The Overview: Four Models of Police-Government Relations	p. 16
Commentary	p. 77
The Oversight of Executive-Police Relations in Canada: 'The Constitution, the Courts, Administrative Processes, and Democratic Governance'	p. 96
Commentaries	p. 128
Police-Government Relations in the Context of State-Aboriginal Relations	p. 147
Commentary	p. 172
The Idea of the Political 'Independence' of the Police: International Interpretations and Experiences	p. 183
Accountability Mechanisms: Legal Sites of Executive-Police Relations - Core Principles in a Canadian Context	p. 257
Commentary	p. 290
Steeped in Politics: The Ongoing History of Politics in Policing	p. 313
Commentary	p. 366
Epilogue: Extracts from the Ipperwash Inquiry Transcripts	p. 381
Discussion Paper and Questions Used to Guide the Ipperwash Deliberations on Government-Police Relations	p. 401
Bibliography	p. 427
Index	p. 459
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