Pyramids or Sandcastles? Regulating police conduct in Ireland

Brian Moss

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    Abstract

    Responsive regulation advances the idea that overseers should act cautiously against misconduct, imposing increasingly harsher methods in a phased approach depending on the response of the errant actor. Responsive regulation is assessed here in relation to the Irish policing model since 2007, seeking to determine whether it has been and remains a suitable way to deal with police misconduct that has emerged time and again in that jurisdiction. Using complaint data, it is argued that police overseer treatment of low-level and serious misconduct has not met the expectations of responsive regulation. Further, there has been no evident police commitment to distinguish praiseworthy police officer performance in line with a later version of responsive regulation. Both issues have implications for retention of responsive regulation as a guiding theory for continued police oversight and reform.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1027-1043
    Number of pages17
    JournalPolicing and Society
    Volume30
    Issue number9
    Early online date10 Jul 2019
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Keywords

    • Ireland
    • Responsive regulation
    • conduct
    • police

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Sociology and Political Science
    • Law

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