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Policing Human Rights: Law, Narratives, and Practice
Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies. Policing Human Rights exposes how and why human rights law comes to be socially constituted, organizationally conditioned, and routinely interpreted and applied by police officers.
| Author(s) | By Richard Martin (Assistant Professor in Law, Assistant Professor in Law, London School of Economics). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 448 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 10 Jun 2021 |
| Availability | Available |
Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies. Policing Human Rights exposes how and why human rights law comes to be socially constituted, organizationally conditioned, and routinely interpreted and applied by police officers.
Part 1: Setting the Scene Introduction: Righting Policing 1: Towards a Sociological Approach to Human Rights Law Part II: Official Vernaculars: The Politics of Rights 2: The Official Police Voice 3: The Policing Board: Ethno-Political Tenors Part II
Richard Martin is an Assistant Professor in Law at the London School of Economics. He conducts doctrinal and empirical research on the criminal justice system, human rights and public law. Richard was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at th
