• E4J University Module Series: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Module 5: Police Accountability, Integrity and Oversight

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Topic 1: Policing in democracies and the need for accountability, integrity, oversight
  • Topic 2: Key mechanisms and actors in police accountability and oversight
  • Topic 3: Crosscutting and contemporary issues in police accountability
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Case studies

• Possible class structure  

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• Guidelines to develop a stand-alone course

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• First published in July 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

Materials with this icon can be found in the E4J Library of Resources.

• Bayley, David (2001). Democratizing the Police Abroad: What to do and How to do it? . Washington: U.S. Department of Justice.
• CoE (Council of Europe) (2001). The European Code of Police Ethics . Strasbourg: CoE.
• DCAF (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces) (2012). Toolkit on Police Integrity . Geneva: DCAF, Chapter 5. 
• DCAF (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces) (2015a). "The Police", SSR Backgrounder Series . Geneva: DCAF.
• Kraska, Peter and Kappeler, Victor (1995). To serve and pursue: Exploring police sexual violence against women, Justice Quarterly, vol. 12, No. 1, 85-111.
• Newburn, Tim (2015). Police Integrity and Corruption - A Literature Review . London: Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services.
• United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) (2010). Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, Study on Police Oversight Mechanisms, Addendum . New York: UN.
• UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Council) (2015). Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, Mutuma Ruteere. New York: UN. 
• UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) (2011). Handbook on Police Accountability, Oversight and Integrity . New York: UN, Chapter 1-4.

 

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