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Police Accountability: Challenges and Opportunities

Pascale Chifflet, Laura Griffin, Meribah Rose, Emma Ryan and Ian Warren

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In development

This is an interdisciplinary open educational resource examining the harms of policing, processes of accountability and opportunities for reform. It will help learners critically examine policing and accountability through contemporary Australian case studies, theoretical perspectives and the experiences of practitioners, communities and people with lived experience. This resource brings together accessible analysis, practitioner perspectives and lived experience in a teaching-ready Australian context rather than overly procedural, theoretical or non-Australian approaches.

Draft TOC:

  1. Section 1: Context of police powers and oversight
    1. Introduction
    2. Overview of police powers
    3. Introduction to police oversight bodies — typologies
  2. Section 2: Challenges of police oversight

    This section will include chapters on specific issues driven by the expertise and experience of our contributors. We anticipate that this may include, for instance:

    1. Challenges accessing and utilising data to hold police accountable
    2. Analysis of the limitations of specific oversight bodies, e.g. the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (NSW) or the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (Vic)
    3. The harms and challenges of racialised policing
    4. The unique challenges of oversight in remote and regional communities
  3. Section 3: Opportunities for oversight

    This section will outline some of the possible opportunities or mechanisms for meaningful oversight and accountability, including both more academic analyses alongside case studies and comments from practitioners, for instance:

    1. Class actions as mechanisms for oversight
    2. Alternative mechanisms for data collection and accountability, e.g. Melbourne Activist Legal Support’s protest observation teams
    3. Overview of specific programs within existing bodies, e.g. IBAC‘s Focused Police Complaints Pilot
    4. Examples of bodies or processes from other jurisdictions, e.g. the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland
  4. Section 4: Where to next?
    1. Conclusion

Details

Publication date: TBA
Publisher: La Trobe eBureau
ISBN: 978-1-7641666-5-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26826/1033