Civilian Oversight of Policing: Governance, Democracy and Human Rights
| Published date | 01 August 2001 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000486580103400209 |
| Date | 01 August 2001 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
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In addition,
denunciation
of those who abuse trust could be intensified.
To increase the severity of sentences imposed on convicted fraud offenders would
help emphasisesociety's condemnation of fraud, and arguablycontribute to a more
credible deterrent threat.
And finally, greater attention should be paid to organisation-level indicators
of fraud risk, such as
the
lack of control systems and the absence of articulated
ethical standards.
Currently Associate Professor of Business Administration at Intercollege,
in Nicosia, Cyprus, Krambia-Kapardis brings an impressive interdisciplinary
approach to the issue of fraud. She qualified as a chartered accountant and worked
as an auditor with a large accounting firm in Melbourne, and completed a certifi-
cate in fraud investigation. Based on the author's PhD thesis at Edith Cowan
University, this book demonstrates an impressfve grasp of the literature in criminol-
ogy,
sociology and psychology.
The
application of routine activity analysis to the
crime of fraud is exemplary.
The
book is a rich resource, and one
that
should
be read by any serious student of white-collar crime.
Peter Grabosky
Ausuolian
Institute
of
Chriminology,
Canberra
Civilian Oversight
of
Policing: Governance,
Democracy
and
Human
Rights
By
Andrew Goldsmith andColleen Lewis
(Eds.)
Publisher:
Oxford:
Hart,
(2000),
pp.
331
In 1991 Clarendon Press published Andrew Goldsmith's edited book
Complaints
Against
the
Police:
The
Trend
to
External
Review.
Although forms of external review
of police disciplinaryprocesses had been in place for some time and had attracted
academic interest, the book established
the
importance and complexity of this
emerging field of research.
It
quickly became a seminal text; possiblythe most cited
source in the whole area of studies concerned with the control of police conduct.
A decade later, this new edited volume by Andrew Goldsmith and Colleen Lewis
represents a major advance in analysing both the expansion of civilian oversight
and various forms of resistance and subversion. Where the earlier book necessarily
focused on justifyingthe need for external input into police disciplinary processes,
the current volume is able to devote more space to specific
issues
associated with
oversight and the internal/external mix. Furthermore, the earlier volume had been
essentially aproduct
of
the.experience of Britain,
the
United
States, Canada
and Australia.
The
new book takes a truly international perspective with a series
of
studies of civilian oversight in diverse societies, many of them marked by intense
conflict.
Civilian
Oversight
of
Police
is organised into three parts.
The
first section -
titled 'Entrenching Civilian Oversight' - looks specifically at threats to oversight
in jurisdictions where it has
been
in
place
for some time. Drawing mainly
on
Australian examples,
Colleen
Lewis's
chapter
makes explicit
the
various
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