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Making a unique contribution to the scholarship on democratic policing, this book adapts the concept of epistocracy to explore the role of knowledge and expertise in police governance and accountability. A rigorous empirical analysis of the Scottish police governance arrangements following reform in 2013 is complemented with examples from other liberal democracies, situating the Scottish context in wider debates on democratic policing, localism, and the operational independence doctrine. The book provides a framework for knowledge-based working practices, showing how principles of democratic policing, such as equity and responsiveness, may be achieved in practice

Money laundering is the process of converting or transferring cash or other assets, generated from illegal activity, in order to conceal or disguise their origins. In recent years, the international community has decided that focusing on money laundering is an efficient strategy in policing organized crime and, now terrorism. To this end, countries are encouraged to harmonize their policies and legislation and, to some extent, their policing strategies. Before adopting these new strategies, however, it is important to understand the extent of money laundering in different jurisdictions, as well as the likelihood of success and the costs involved in these anti-laundering strategies. This new work by Margaret E. Beare and Stephen Schneider brings empirical evidence to the study of money laundering in Canada – a topic that has recently assumed an international profile. They challenge the seemingly common sense notion, fueled by political posturing and policing rhetoric, that taking the profits away from criminals is a rational law enforcment strategy. Using data from police cases, the inner working of financial institutions, and the 'successful' claims of privilege from our legal profession, the final picture that the authors paint is of a good enforcement strategy run amuch amid conflicting interests and agendas, an overly ambitious set of expectations, and an ambiguous body of evidence as to the strategy's overall merits

What explains the boom in private prisons—especially since the record of privatization for rehabilitating prisoners and saving taxpayer dollars is, at best, mixed? Karyl Kicenski examines the privatization of California state prisons to illuminate the forces that shape and distort our criminal justice policies. Tracing the growth of private prisons from 1980 to the current day, Kicenski explores the role of political and economic factors, as well as the impact of changing public attitudes toward crime and governance. The result is a clear set of lessons for the uneasy partnership between public safety and for-profit enterprise

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Determinate Sentencing and the Texas Youth Commission: A Timeline -- Chapter 1. Origins and Discoveries -- Chapter 2. The Determinate Sentencing Act in Texas -- Chapter 3. The Sheep That Got Lost -- Chapter 4. Doing Time in the Texas Youth Commission -- Chapter 5. Another Second Chance -- Chapter 6. The Burden of Second Chances -- Chapter 7. Three Decades Later -- Chapter 8. The Last Word -- Notes -- Index

From corporate corruption and the facilitation of money laundering, to food fraud and labour exploitation, European citizens continue to be confronted by serious corporate and white-collar crimes. Presenting an original series of provocative essays, this book offers a European framing of white-collar crime. Experts from different countries foreground what is unique, innovative or different about white-collar and corporate crimes that are so strongly connected to Europe, including the tensions that exist within and between the nation-states of Europe, and within the institutions of the European region. This European voice provides an original contribution to discourses surrounding a form of crime which is underrepresented in current criminological literature

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue: Victorville, 2010 -- 1. A Fishing Trip to Ellis Prison -- 2. Death at Turkey Creek -- 3. Estelle's Bitterness -- 4. A Confusing Scene -- 5. The Aura of Ellis -- 6. The Witch and the Writ Writers -- 7. The Question of the Gun -- 8. The Shadow of Ruiz -- 9. Weasel -- 10. The Dangers of Testifying -- 11. Old Thing -- 12. Eroy as Aggressor -- 13. The Defense Is Self-Defense -- 14. Eroy's Story -- 15. The Perfect Defendant -- 16. The TDC on Trial -- 17. The Arc of the Moral Universe -- 18. The Shoes of Eroy Brown -- 19. Politics and Prisons -- 20. The State Tries Again -- 21. A Cat Batters a Mouse -- 22. Twenty-Three Jurors -- 23. Still Not Protected -- 24. Paying for Justice -- 25. The End of an Era -- 26. Free at Last -- 27. Aftermath -- Notes -- A Note on the Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Sex: No Means Yes, No Means No!; 2. A Fate Worse Than Death: Honor and Honesty; 3. The Aftermath: Trauma and Healing; 4. Black-and-White Thinking; 5. Omissions: Men, Masculinity, and Myths; 6. Missions: Yes Means Yes; Afterword: Notes from the Road; Bibliography; Notes; Index

Corruption and its perils -- The rising price of power -- The power of the lobby -- The big business of corruption -- The bankers' story : an end to trust -- On- and offshore secrets -- Justice for sale? -- Organised crime : a perennial spectre -- Foul play : corruption in sport -- Murky waters : environmental ccorruption -- A challenge to the West.