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Title Regulating policing : the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 past, present and future / edited by Ed Cape and Richard Young
Published Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages)
Contents Prelims; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Authorise and Regulate: A Comparative Perspective on the Rise and Fall of a Regulatory Strategy; 3 Can Coercive Powers be Effectively Controlled or Regulated? The Case for Anchored Pluralism; 4 PACE: A View from the Custody Suite; 5 Keeping PACE? Some Front Line Policing Perspectives; 6 Tipping the Scales of Justice?: A Review of the Impact of PACE on the Police, Due Process and the Search for Truth 1984-2006; 7 Street Policing after PACE: The Driftto Summary Justice; 8 PACE Then and Now: Twenty-one Years of 'Re-balancing'
Summary The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) was an innovative and controversial attempt to regulate the investigation of crime. Two decades on, it now operates in a very different context than in the mid-1980s. Whilst legal advice has become established as a basic right of those arrested and detained by the police, the police service has become increasingly professionalised but also increasingly driven by government objectives and targets. The Crown Prosecution Service, originally established to separate prosecution from investigation, is now becoming involved in the investigative process
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Great Britain. Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984.
SUBJECT Police and Criminal Evidence Act, 1984 (Great Britain) fast
Subject Police power -- England
Police power -- Wales
Criminal investigation -- Law and legislation -- England
Criminal investigation -- Law and legislation -- Wales
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Criminal investigation -- Law and legislation
Police power
Strafprocesrecht.
Politie.
Opsporingsonderzoek.
England
Wales
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanniƫ en Noord-Ierland.
Form Electronic book
Author Cape, Ed.
Young, Richard (Richard P.)
ISBN 9781847314543
1847314546
1282048430
9781282048430
9781472564511
1472564510