Accountability Across the Policing Field: Towards a General Cartography of Accountability for Post-Modern Policing

Author: Sheptycki J.

Source: Policing and Society, Volume 12, Number 4, 1 January 2002 , pp. 323-338(16)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This article systematically surveys the policing field with a view to spotlighting the difficulties in conceiving an accountability framework for policing, transnational and otherwise. It argues that policing is no longer a set of practices embedded in the sovereign nation-state, but rather has become transnationalised and greatly differentiated. Symptomatic of the postmodern condition, the policing field is a fragmented terrain. Its considerable differentiation heteronymy poses acute accountability problems that cannot easily be answered by reference to traditional models of constitutional control.

Keywords: High policing; Private policing; Transnational policing; Police accountability; Constabulary ethic

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Sociology, University of Durbam, 32 Old Elvel, Durbam, DHI 3HN, UK

Publication date: 2002-01-01